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people wait now until the console is eol so they dont patch it or fix it in factory

• boltzmann-brain 4y ago
  it's highly unlikely there will be a clear general EOL for software on this generation of consoles... at all. A unified x64 target across all platforms is just too convenient for developers to give up. Xbox or Sony diverging from that would be a massive hit in revenue for them and any developers who would like to publish there. Nintendo Switch, while selling the hardware in massive amounts, still has poor library parity with x64 consoles, and it will remain like this, not just because of lower specs, but because porting is actual effort there.
  • rpep 4y ago
    Porting x86 to ARM is not really that difficult. You've got to recompile your code on the different machine anyway, so the architecture itself shouldn't be the major barrier.
  • ChuckNorris89 4y ago
    No, the poor library of the Switch is not due to it being ARM, as game engines, APIs and SW tooling have come a long way to make the HW agnostic, it's purely due to it being severely underpowered (it has the SoC of a 2016 Android phone).