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I'm surprised that even in that case, they wouldn't just iterate on components and then come out with it again once they've managed to debug any fun quirks that
by rincebrain 10y ago
I'm surprised that even in that case, they wouldn't just iterate on components and then come out with it again once they've managed to debug any fun quirks that come from trying to iterate on the hardware and got fabbing capacity ramped up.
On the other hand, Nintendo's been burned before by apparently-boundless demand for, say, the Wii U, and then incredibly sharp dropoff, so they might just be going heavily conservative on the possible profit/possible cost to update.
- wernercd 10y agoIf they can iterate, increase the value (more games? SNES? Gameboy? etc) and "fix" the DRM "issue" (Ability to hack it... I know that's gotta be burning them up)...
- rincebrain 10y agoI mean, the more trivial way to lock it down would be to have a truly read-only OS partition, rather than apparently trying slightly (based on my quick skimming of the ways to manipulate the device). That would forbid dynamic updates (which would let them play cat-and-mouse with fixing holes, if they were so inclined), but would also avoid most things that would require replacing the OS stack. e: They also clearly knew they weren't building a fortress, given the note buried in the image of "Many efforts, tears and countless hours have been put into this jewel. So, please keep this place tidied up and don't break everything!"