This is going to be interesting.

Prove to me that there isn’t a walled garden.

Why do you keep insisting I’m moving the goal post? I’m not disagreeing with you. I’m just pointing out the process is not easy as you claim it is.

If anyone could release a game cartridge, the GBA would have been filled with shovelware and we wouldn’t need emulators. Homebrew was possible on the DS and later thanks to off-the-shelf SD cards, but that didn’t mean you were going to be suddenly granted a writable game cartridge.

Both can be true.

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

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.

I mean, in the past it was their biggest advantage but, yeah, now it’s not wroth the investment.

Yuup. Nintendo’s biggest advantage has always been their intellectual property, and even that hasn’t always saved them. glances at the Wii U

The whole point of federating is to make those metrics obsolete. What matters more is maintaining the community you have, not infinite growth.

First it was VR and now AI.

They’re both successful by non-capitalist metrics.

I understand. That being said, my feelings remain mixed.

It’s hard to feel sympathetic for Disney when they have more money than god.

Fair enough. xD

That didn’t take long.

These guys have been craving for another civil war since Trump’s first term.

Laying the ground work, probably.

and most of them rent them out as props.

That’s pretty much all it’s good for.