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• tonytins@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Only games officially licensed by Nintendo.

  Bingo. Nintendo and all game consoles are all walled gardens, but not necessarily a bad thing in this case. The Steam Deck is more of handheld PC that can pretty much run anything when in Desktop Mode. They’re two completely different beasts.

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Any non modern Nintendo console is capable of playing homebrew games, so this isn’t even true.

    People have released NES and gameboy games in the last few years. Even on carts.

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    • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ok, now suppose you want to release a game for any of the modern Nintendo consoles.

      You need to get a devkit. To get it, you need Nintendo to approve your request, and you need to pay them for a license to use the devkit hardware. And, to actually use the devkit, you need a PC running Windows.

      Sure, to develop a game for PC, you need a PC. But do you know what you don’t need? A devkit or a Windows license.

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    • tonytins@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Just because Homebrew is possible doesn’t mean Nintendo intended for you to do that.

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      • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The games released on carts on official games, but they’re playable on an unmodified console system. Where do the goalposts get moved to now? Games are released on something you said wasn’t possible, so which is it?

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• SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You said PC gaming is flawed because you can’t play modern games on a Windows 95 PC. Which is insane.

  I never claimed that. I said it was a limitation. Which it is. It limits its capability.

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  • atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You know what? I just had a change of heart.

    PC gaming is so much more limited compared to the Nintendo Switch.

    You can only play on the Steam Deck. All game available on PC have to be licensed by Valve. If Half-Life is played on anything that isn’t a Steam Deck, Valve will sue you into oblivion.

    If only PC gamers could play their games on the hardware of their choosing instead of that one handheld. 😢

    Thank you for showing me the error of my ways.

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