Re:The Little Coder's Predicament
by scott_s on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @12:45AM
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That seemed to the obvious answer to me. Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft aren't going to open up development on their consoles because they make money off of licensing fees.
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Unless they disallowed vendors from charging for games made by the "open" dev kit, thereby preserving the licensing fee.
Or just eliminate the fee in its entirety and take a slice of the revenue (or marginally larger slice).
I don't see how lowering cost of entry could be anything but advantageous to console makers.
On the first thought: I don't see it,they would still have to contend with a growing community of people who mostly want to play homebrew and open source games.
On the second: Maybe, but that might be seen as a barrier to publishing a game made for fun that just happened to be good. "Eh, I'll just give it away, I was only doing it for fun anyway."