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curl-6 on 22 June 2013
| spurgeonryan said: Quick question. Doesn't Nintendo always make their hardware hard for anyone to develope for? Even the Wii U has a bunch of crazy stuff going on inside it. |
I don't know about handhelds, but Nintendo consoles typically have unconventional innards that are hard to extract the full power of, yes.
N64 was a nightmare, Wii's graphical architecture was from another planet compared to the direction the rest of the industry went in, (register combiners vs programmable pixel and vertex shaders) and Wii U's GPU has been described by Criterion, a very technically competent dev, as a "real struggle" to work with.
