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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. Actually... by sehryan · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Running home-brewed code is one thing that might not seem that amazing. But what it does is let smaller development shops enter the market fairly easily. This has some seriously huge implications, and from interviews with Nintendo execs, it seems like enticing the small fish as well as the big is exactly what they want to do.

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  2. Innovation: Free of charge by white1827 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think that this would be a smart move for Nintendo. Especially if they follow the Apple model of offering a high quality free development environment for your system (xcode). End users make cool software at no cost to you. The more cool games you have for the system, the more incentives people have to buy your console. Especially if there is a lot of cool free content.