Series X/S owners now have to pay for dev mode to reactivate emulation.
And surprise, wouldn't you know it, Nintendo strikes again.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/7/23674707/microsoft-xbox-emulators-ban-nintendo
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Verge is a woke and anti-gamergate site, and should earn automatic archive linking.
PC for life.
Unless you're willing to move to Linux/OpenBSD, I would be very fucking cautious of becoming complacent of PC. And even then.
Steam Deck is our salvation. Microsoft is such a clusterfuck. Thank god Linux is getting better.
Yup. People wonder why I'm not very harsh about Valve not cranking out games at the same rate as Ubisoft or EA. It's probably because they're making affordable gaming hardware that doesn't screw over the consumer while bringing Linux more to a mainstream audience.
from what I read, valve is extremely disorganized, each small group decides what they want to work on, with no clear directions from the top, the hardwares people aren't the game developers (if there're still any such groups at all)
This, I got my SteamDeck in November, and the customization options and emulation potential have hooked me. This is the legitimate most fun I've had with a console in years
My question is: if Nintendo were really behind it, why would Microsoft allow you to play emulators so long as your pay for it (via their Dev Mode)? It seems like they would shut it down altogether if they were really being threatened by Nintendo.
Because that's what Dev Mode is. Dev Mode allows you to run software that hasn't been approved by Microsoft because developers need to be able to run their own games to test them, and they can't do that if they need to go running to Microsoft for permission every time they go from Version 0.1.01 to 0.1.02.
Point missed.
They charge people for Dev Mode, therefore, they're profiting from it, therefore, it probably has nothing to do with copyright issues with Nintendo.
Wait, so all the dicks ive been sucking are GAY??!
Sounds likely, when you literally power up a new OOBE Windows PC for the first time after bringing it home, you're locked into an S Mode where any third party non-WEP apps are blocked and you can ONLY use Edge, you have to dig deep to turn it off
I don't think they'd try to extend this to PC, and they certainly shouldn't be permitted to do so. The PC ecosystem is built on the assumption that you can run arbitrary code; turning Windows into a walled garden is the level of anti-competitive behaviour that might literally start a war.
It will take longer, but the existence of Trusted Platform Module tells me that future roadmap for consumer electronics is for the hardware itself to be built to allow corporations to monitor and control what you can run on your machine.
Don't like it? Build your own microprocessor ;)