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Revolution to Allow For Home Development?

Posted by Zonk on from the hundreds-of-new-development-shops dept.

Via the Guardian GamesBlog, a BoingBoing post with an interesting posit. Will the Revolution allow owners to run their own code on the machine? From the article: "...the world of consoles that only ran signed code was a nice racket while it lasted, but at the end of the day, needing to get permission to run software on your own device sucks and devices that let anyone write software for them get more valuable as more people write more code for them." A nice idea, but not too likely in my opinion.

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  1. The only connection... by rokzy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...between the press release and the posit seems to be wishful thinking.

    Even "indie games" have a far larger license budget than an interested coder would be prepared to lay down just to play about with some ideas.

  2. Re:Could be cool... by RM6f9 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Funny (really), but I don't think they'd let any code go into widespread distribution without running through it with their army of lemmings (testers) first.

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  3. No Way. by J_Meller · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Never going to happen, Nintendo is all about quality control, most 3rd party developers dropped the various Nintendo systems because of Nintendo's aggressive nature when it comes to content and distribution control. Because most Nintendo systems are marketed to be idiot proof, they will never allow code to be compiled and distributed without thorough in house testing, the possibility for disaster is too great especially if people start developing and privately distributing games with copyright and trademark infringements