Given that there is already work on Switch 2 emulators, it wouldn't surprise me that Nintendo is trying to curtail the emulation crowd until they get more of their $$. And dev kits have had people reverse engineer them a while back.
Given that there is already work on Switch 2 emulators, it wouldn't surprise me that Nintendo is trying to curtail the emulation crowd until they get more of their $$. And dev kits have had people reverse engineer them a while back.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
And there goes the usual Nintendo Defense Force.
These are not random fly by night devs asking for devkits. They are pretty major players in the industry, many of which make games that make Nintendo a lot of money. Contracts and tracking (which already exist and are why game dev halted during COVID) are very much doable here.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 days ago
I dont think im defending NT? This is all just conjecture based on SW1 and how that played out.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
It is also nonsense. You might as well say that they are blocking devkits because people sold too many third party controllers.
A few youtube channels over the years have gotten access to devkits. They pretty much all lock instantly the moment you go online because there is a permitlist of IPs that can connect to the servers. This is a solved problem that can be further limited by only providing them to major dev studios.
That is very much not what is happening here even if we ignore all the insider information about Nintendo delaying third parties. Again, plenty of studios are very open that they have not received devkits and these are established studios that have been around for literally decades.
This has jack all to do with emulation.
But people always need to insist Nintendo is doing their shit for the right reasons and blah blah blah.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 days ago
Sorry I guess I dont understand what you are saying. Have a good day!