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tonytins@pawb.social 3 days agoOnly games officially licensed by Nintendo.
Bingo. Nintendo and all game consoles are all walled gardens, but not necessarily a bad thing in this case. The Steam Deck is more of handheld PC that can pretty much run anything when in Desktop Mode. They’re two completely different beasts.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Any non modern Nintendo console is capable of playing homebrew games, so this isn’t even true.
People have released NES and gameboy games in the last few years. Even on carts.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ok, now suppose you want to release a game for any of the modern Nintendo consoles.
You need to get a devkit. To get it, you need Nintendo to approve your request, and you need to pay them for a license to use the devkit hardware. And, to actually use the devkit, you need a PC running Windows.
Sure, to develop a game for PC, you need a PC. But do you know what you don’t need? A devkit or a Windows license.
tonytins@pawb.social 3 days ago
Just because Homebrew is possible doesn’t mean Nintendo intended for you to do that.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The games released on carts on official games, but they’re playable on an unmodified console system. Where do the goalposts get moved to now? Games are released on something you said wasn’t possible, so which is it?
tonytins@pawb.social 3 days ago
Both can be true.