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OffTopic > Revolution to Support Indie Developers?

#43134 - notb4dinner - Thu May 19, 2005 12:07 pm

From boingboing.net:
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Nintendo promises a console that will run anyone's code?
Hidden in a fluffy press release for Nintendo's new Revolution console device is this notice:

Freedom of design: A dynamic development architecture equally accommodates both big-budget, high-profile game "masterpieces" as well as indie games conceived by individual developers equipped with only a big idea.

Not much detail, but if Nintendo makes good on that promise, they're poised to kick the competition's ass: a 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.

Original Press Release Here

I thought another press release that talked about reduced production costs sounded promising but this one has got me stunned. Could Nintendo really be opening up to amateur developers?

Looking at the DS I'm doubtful but anything is possible..

#43140 - MrD - Thu May 19, 2005 12:51 pm

About God Damned Time?
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#43144 - tepples - Thu May 19, 2005 2:33 pm

With our luck, it probably means indie as in one published retail title for the Microsoft Windows platform, not indie as in amateur or even indie as in startup venture.
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#43178 - doublec - Thu May 19, 2005 10:55 pm

Gizmodo looks into it and thinks that Nintendo allowing homebrew is unlikely:

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/nintendo/nintendo-revolution-homebrew-likelihood-not-good-104204.php

#43180 - MrD - Thu May 19, 2005 11:22 pm

Plain silly, but not unexpected. ;_;

*throws a GP32 at Shigsy*
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