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>How open are nintendo to indies? Absolutely not at all. The only way for joe schmoe indie developer to make games for a nintendo platform is to crack the cons
by zalzane 13y ago
>How open are nintendo to indies?
Absolutely not at all. The only way for joe schmoe indie developer to make games for a nintendo platform is to crack the console and make homebrew games that only work on other cracked consoles.
edit: looks like someone needs to be reminded what the downvote button is for. Everything I said is factually true, and the fact that Nintendo shows "interest" at a convention or allows some of the top selling indie titles onto their platform doesn't change how hostile they are towards the homebrew community.
- mehrzad 13y agoNintendo is slowly opening up to indies especially on the EShop with games like this: https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/WQaA7w-yvWTrSVOJ9x5w-IfWq4ew1rrE https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/WQaA7w-yvWTrSVOJ9x5w-I... They generally only take more famous titles IIRC, but saying they hate indies is not true at all, especially with their presence at that conference recently.
- zalzane 13y agoHow is that an indie title? It's published by sega and is being produced by Double Fine, a well established developer that has 50+ employees.
- pfisch 13y agoThis is completely wrong. I am part of an indie team and Nintendo has offered us much more than Microsoft or Sony. They have changed their stance towards indies significantly in the past 12 months. No one is really friendly with homebrew communities because those communities have a lot of ties to the hackers/crackers that reverse engineer their consoles. Indie devs != homebrew community. There is some crossover but we are talking about 2 different groups.