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Allowing videogames to make network calls using arbitrary port numbers seem like poor engineering by Nintendo, videogames should have to use an API to do networ
by mattigames 7y ago
Allowing videogames to make network calls using arbitrary port numbers seem like poor engineering by Nintendo, videogames should have to use an API to do network calls regardless of what port the console uses to connect to such networks (internet or other network).
- freehunter 7y agoPeer to peer protocols use arbitrary ports in almost every implementation. Edit to add: and Pokémon games have used peer to peer protocols before on different systems, so this use isn’t new to Pokémon or Nintendo systems.
- kjs3 7y agoSays who?
- mattigames 7y agoNobody you consider important.
- kjs3 7y agoWell, yeah...anyone who doesn't bother or isn't capable of explaining why they make absolutist pronouncements as to how other people should do thing aren't particularly important to anyone.