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I think keeping shovelware out is a fair concept, but they should give interested parties more freedom to play around with their platform and make demos. As it

I think keeping shovelware out is a fair concept, but they should give interested parties more freedom to play around with their platform and make demos. As it stands many of the rules for being a Nintendo developer are arbitrary and it keeps out talented folks. For example you must have an office and you can't work out of your home. That alone could be enough to drive a startup into working on the iOS instead of the 3DS. I'd like to see Nintendo have some sort of arrangement for hobbyists to poke at the platform and make neat stuff, and for Nintendo to partner with them to publish a quality title if something of quality is present. This is similar to how Argonaut and Nintendo started working together and how Nintendo came to produce Star Fox.

9999 16y ago
I don't think keeping shovelware out is a valid explanation for this blanket rule. Apple's ToS have quite a few provisions that could be used to exclude a large amount of shovelware from the app store, but they tend to be rather lax on enforcement unless it competes directly with their business interests. Thus you get 50 fart apps and only a couple of web browsers. Nintendo could easily adapt similar ToS, strictly enforce them and keep out the shovelware. Their decision to exclude this possibility entirely indicates something else is at work in their thinking. If you look at the controversy surrounding Bob's Game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%27s_Game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%27s_Game), it seems pretty obvious that their issues with the "garage developer" have little to do with keeping out mediocre titles. I would suggest that the blanket rule has more to do with their long term business interests--keeping prices up and preventing competition with their own first party games.

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I think keeping shovelware out is a fair concept, but they should give interested parties more freedom to play around with their platform and make demos. As it

by Tiktaalik 16y ago

9999 16y ago
I don't think keeping shovelware out is a valid explanation for this blanket rule. Apple's ToS have quite a few provisions that could be used to exclude a large amount of shovelware from the app store, but they tend to be rather lax on enforcement unless it competes directly with their business interests. Thus you get 50 fart apps and only a couple of web browsers. Nintendo could easily adapt similar ToS, strictly enforce them and keep out the shovelware. Their decision to exclude this possibility entirely indicates something else is at work in their thinking. If you look at the controversy surrounding Bob's Game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%27s_Game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%27s_Game), it seems pretty obvious that their issues with the "garage developer" have little to do with keeping out mediocre titles. I would suggest that the blanket rule has more to do with their long term business interests--keeping prices up and preventing competition with their own first party games.