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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by mywittyname on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:14AM (#26167196)
MS is ahead of the curve here. Rather than trying to combat homebrew, they are embracing it within some predefined boundaries.

The 360 allowed for homebrew as well. I think they learned a lot from XBMC.

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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by IntelMiner on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:35AM (#26167475)
What? The 360 never had any homebrew enabled
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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by mywittyname on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:33PM (#26171354)
Sure you could! I used XNA Game Studio to produce games and apps that would run on my 360. They couldn't take full advantage of the hardware. But if you paid a fee, you could sell your game on XBL much like the App Store or Steam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_XNA_Game_Studio

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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by kevingadd on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:47AM (#26167675)
It was called XBox Live Indie Games, you could sideload anything you wanted once you paid the initial fee, and then you could put it on the store and accept purchases if it got through a peer review system.
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