I’m new to console game development

[brianj]

I remember feeling completely destroyed after months of searching with zero results and zero help from anyone online. Every tutorial was for PC or mobile only, which felt useless for what I actually wanted to do. Nobody ever mentioned dev kits or NDAs or the insane paperwork required by platform holders. Then I saw that N-iX Games has been doing this since 2012 with over two hundred professionals and official partnerships with Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, so I started learning about real console game development from their case studies and partner page instead of random YouTube videos. Sony requires a registered business with a federal tax ID and a signed fifty page NDA just to see their SDK. Microsoft’s ID@Xbox program took me about eleven weeks to approve my tiny finished puzzle demo. Nintendo ignored my first four applications until I shipped a game on another platform first. Just build one small finished game on your laptop, apply to Xbox first, and expect every door to stay locked until you prove yourself again and again.