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New Zelda and Nintendo’s lack of commitment to accessibility, slightly negative
It’s Legend of Inaccessibility release day, so it’s time to stop looking at some gaming sites and YouTube channels for a bit. It’s really sad that of all the major gaming companies, Nintendo is the only one that’s consistently not really cared to implement any kind of accessibility features to either their games or hardware - the Switch is the only major console still lacking any kind of Text to Speech for instance. Steve Saler put it really well in his video - Nintendo’s game design does a lot to make their games sooo close to being accessible, but it’s unfortunate they don’t decide to do that extra push and actually consult with gamers with disabilities. youtube.com/watch?v=vfFvMUpSQS…

Why Nintendo games are not accessible and how to fix it.

After reading/watching a ton of The Legend Of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom reviews today I had a question that has come up often in the disabled community why ...
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OK can I take a moment and come back to #Nintendo for a second… So they killed the 3DS EShop a while back, making it impossible to buy or download any digital games… But, even though the system is end of life they just went out of their way to release a firmware update to patch the exploit people used to play their games (as in the ones they purchase in the past or maybe ones they never got to play because they only had a digital release). IMO this is easily one of the most user hostile companies in the world.
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Toni Barth
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Yep, thats Nintendo. Preventing people from playing ROMs of games which aren't licensed anymore and thus will never come back on any other system.
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Carlos Solís
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Ever since the times of the NES, the company has been hostile against its users. Remember all the encumbrance that developers were forced to put themselves under to get the Seal of Quality. And the fact that they used one of the first hardware-based DRM systems in history.
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@csolisr Yeah. And the limitations they placed on how many games you could release and how they forced developers into exclusivity contracts well into the late 16-bit era, the censorship they forced them to do and... Yeah.
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Mikołaj Hołysz
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I really wonder what their game is, no pun intended. It’s not like they’re losing (much) revenue because of these exploits, especially at this point. You can’t explain this by greed, profit maximization or anything of the sort.
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@miki They've always been super protective of their IP, so it was probably that.
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@miki It's still a target for homebrew, and perhaps you can pirate games that way, or make modified versions.
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@x0 @miki Homebrew is one thing yeah, but what most people have beeen recommending to install now that the official shop was shut down as an alternative storefront, which lets you install *every* game that was available on it, Nintendo or not.
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@miki OK now that does sound like it would be a problem, and they'd presumably be going after any distributors of something like that.
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Trenton Matthews
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It most likely has to do ‘with ‘this’ video from #ModernVintageGamer and the discussion about the game #Cubic Ninja:

youtube.com/watch?v=YAKujG8SXK…


The most important Nintendo 3DS Game Ever Made...

Cubic Ninja was the most important Nintendo 3DS game ever created thanks to its QR Code entry point into the world of unsigned code and homebrew on the 3DS. ...
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