| walsufnir said:
Following the discussion from failoverflow regarding WiiU-hacks there is actually no need for homebrew on consoles anymore. Especially as new consoles shift more and more to PC like hardware one can easily buy a cheap PC for emulation and stuff. There is no "coolness" factor nowadays to have an open source emulator ported to a console. Leaks nowadays would only lead to piracy and that's it, in my opinion. Not that it wouldn't be nice to have one box to do all your standard gaming stuff where you can also hook in your usb data for a rom or iso folder, though ;) |
I am more involved in the handheld homebrew communities, but I guess one can subsitute PC-like with Android/iphone-like in that case. I personally don't see the value now of PC-like consoles even now (other than their exclusives), especially after building a new PC for about $550 (after tax/shipping) that can max (at 1080p) any game released today (with upgradeability and free online), and can play dolphin and pcsxe2 quite flawlessly at better resolutions. Furthermore because PC is an open platform some of my favorite games allow for homebrew mods. Nevertheless, people still find the value in consoles, and I don't think that will end for a while, even if the costs of gaming on PC's become cheaper than consoles. We see with devices like Apple TV, Roku Box, and Amazon Fire TV that some people like closed platforms that give them everything right there and right then as opposed to open platforms that require them to look for the content. I think we might see consoles become more PC-like until they are essentially open-platforms, and then we will have Sony/Microsoft making their own OEM devices that appeal to the console gamer with convenience. Homebrew would probably be something like Android rooting, unlocking your device so that you can download whichever apps/games you choose.
