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Hobbyist developers to Nintendo: "We don't care, we're going to develop for your platforms whether you want us to or not." "Also, in doing so, you're going to
by gergles 16y ago
Hobbyist developers to Nintendo: "We don't care, we're going to develop for your platforms whether you want us to or not."
"Also, in doing so, you're going to force us to completely reverse-engineer your protections and enable trivial piracy."
(Granted, this would almost certainly happen whether hobbyists were welcomed or not -- but by shunning them, they give the actual people with skills reasons to look for weaknesses. Nintendo consoles are all trivially piratable, even the latest and greatest games, and were almost instantly after each console's release. The only one that has stayed intact is the DSi (probably because there's no worthwhile DSi-exclusive software))
- jbermudes 16y agoYup. The homebrew scene is often the one that does all the hard work and the pirates reap the rewards of the broken security systems (Notice how the security system of the PS3 wasn't broken until well after the Other OS feature was removed and the community wanted it back).