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It reminds me of the absolute insane stuff arcade manufacturers would do to keep control over everything.
Capcom used to sell full blown arcade systems where the game's ROM was actually volatile - in 2 years, it would vanish. You needed to pay them a monthly fee so that a technician would come up with a special device capable of rewriting the data periodically.
~~Enterprising~~ Greedy manufacturers will absolutely devise a way to classify computers, laptops, tablets, and phones as “game consoles”.
HP tomorrow "introducing our new gaming inkjet printer"
~~printer~~ scanner, which requires ink cartridges to function
At this point I think they will just sell them for less than 50$ and still earn as much money by shrinkflation.
Nintendo is a mob level boss.
Game consoles are like proprietary PCs with some of the features removed. If PCs are included, couldn't you argue game consoles are too?
Moat electronics are proprietary computers with limited features. Consoles make no sense as an exception.
I mean what features are removed exactly? They have all the components needed to install windows/mac/linux and hook up a mouse and keyboard. I really don't see any distinction besides they come with gamepads and a gaming oriented OS instead of keyboards and a more general OS.
Oh that would be amazing. If I had control over my game console.
Ok, hear me out. My intuition tells me its because consoles are subsidized. The manufacturer loses money or breakes even in order to make money back in the games sold. I think Nintendo is an exception. So having the additional expense of having to support them harms the hardware subsidy model.
Gotta admit.. That sounds like a "them" problem. If they want to sell it at a loss, that's on them. Make console prices more expensive.
Bring more gamers to the PC & Steam Deck.
Maybe, but why should that exempt them? If the model doesn't work anymore then it doesn't work. Who cares. They'll still sell consoles and make money. They might cost more upfront or something, but they'll still sell them.
I assume that they managed to get it exempted based on piracy concerns.
Frying your console's motherboard attempting to install a mod chip is not a big deal if you can replace it yourself on the cheap.
Even better, it would mean those selling mod chips could just buy the motherboards and sell pre modded motherboards.
Wouldn't that be an argument for right-to-repair? If the user has to buy another console because theirs broke, the company has made twice the loss for the same number of games bought (or fewer, because the user has less money to spend on games). Reparing looks like a win-win here.
Nintendo has been the only game company I've seen be directly vocal against the Right to Repair stuff. 🤔
Extreme? Fuck off, lol
As much of a bummer as that is, I don't think there has ever been any major cases of someone just replacing parts for their console and not selling it. What is a company like sintendo gonna do if you replace the screen on your switch with a 3rd party screen or open it up to replace any parts but don't end up selling it?
I think they're more concerned about mod chips and having to sell replacement motherboards to fix botched jobs.
Does anyone know the reasoning used for the exception? From the article, it was clearly a deliberate decision. But I do not see any reason why it was needed.
I'm guessing piracy.
Me when I can't scam the consumers by selling cheap electronics that I will support only until the next model.