Ask Slashdot: Are The Days of Homebrew Gaming Over?

Posted by samzenpus on Monday July 30, 2012 @07:29AM from the say-goodbye dept.

Croakyvoice writes "A few years ago the Homebrew community went from one console to another releasing some excellent software, from the Days of the Dreamcast the first breakthrough homebrew console, to the PSP which gave us the first handheld Nintendo 64, GBA and PSX emulators on a handheld. The last few years we have seen Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony and Apple all bring out means to thwart homebrew development. The app store on both Android and iOS have taken many homebrew devs over to try and break the market. The major consoles have so many firmware updates that the days of Homebrew seem to be numbered, is there a way back for the Homebrew Community?"

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No by clarkn0va · 2012-07-30 07:32 · Score: 3, Informative

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_Law_of_Headlines

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if there was only a gen purpose personal computer by Dan667 · 2012-07-30 07:43 · Score: 4, Informative

that did not have any vendor lock-in problems ...
Homebrew isn't over by Nyder · 2012-07-30 07:57 · Score: 4, Informative

http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wii homebrew still gets made, emulators get updated still. It's slowed down, but after we hack the Wii U, I imagine there will be a bunch of new stuff.
Stuff still gets made for the Xbox 360, the PS3.
Wouldn't even need to ask the question if you googled the various scenes.

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