Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
by lvass on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @10:35AM
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The fact someone else did something is an absurd justification to do it as well. In a practical level, Xbox is much more locked in than Nintendo, as all Nintendo consoles have PC emulators for it and the devices can be jailbroken.
Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
by ethbr0 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @10:49AM
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It's not absurd: it's literally proof of a viable and sustainable business model.
Consoles have always been packaged, standardized, and locked computers. That Nintendo is bad at security isn't proof of any great altruism. It just means they're not good at secure hardware design.
Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
by bitwize on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:22PM
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Except they weren't -- until Nintendo came along with their 10NES lockout chip.
Actually Texas Instruments had a go at it with their beige TI-99/4A, but by the time that came out most of the TI-99/4As that would ever be sold were already sold, without the lockout. But it was the NES that turned the locked box into a business model.
The world, it be complicated, yo.