I think it's more of how far out the release date is, honestly. If they were pitching this for, say, Q1 2014, this wouldn't be that much of a red flag. That's

I think it's more of how far out the release date is, honestly. If they were pitching this for, say, Q1 2014, this wouldn't be that much of a red flag. That's plenty of time to get a dev SDK out for developers to have enough time to make something. However, with less than 9 months to launch, they absolutely need an SDK ready, unless they're serious about only getting ports of existing android games. A 6-9 month dev cycle is on the short side for most quality indie game releases, but it's very possible to get good games made in that time.