Hacking Question In terms of security, is the Switch more 3DS-like or more PS4/Vita-like?

[TotalInsanity4]

As far as I can tell, it's more like Android.

But it's not

 

[Beerus]

But it's not

cant tell if he is serious or trolling

 

[Youkosnake]

But it's not

Nintendo originally tried to get Android on to its system. The Tegra is Android based hardware. At a bare minimum you are going to have a very Android like kernel due to the hardware

 

[DarkIrata]

Nintendo originally tried to get Android on to its system. The Tegra is Android based hardware. At a bare minimum you are going to have a very Android like kernel due to the hardware

 

[Beerus]

Nintendo originally tried to get Android on to its system. The Tegra is Android based hardware. At a bare minimum you are going to have a very Android like kernel due to the hardware

 

[YeezusWalks]

Nintendo originally tried to get Android on to its system. The Tegra is Android based hardware. At a bare minimum you are going to have a very Android like kernel due to the hardware

...What?

 

[FAST6191]

where new games won’t work because they are signed for a newer firmware.

Signing is but the most basic way you do such things, though done properly it is effective, and as you say may not be available for all systems if such things were not planned for.

Other ways include radically redoing your API set but possibly in a subtle way (order of function inputs, needing another input, tweak in name/number/...). You saw something kind of like this on the Wii with the IOS setup where only certain IOS (or bases used for CIOS) would do for certain games. Here if the would be pirate/hacker set had to skim through the whole game looking for calls and redoing them such that they work (or had the expected functions emulated) then it rapidly becomes frustrating, especially if you then redo the whole lot again every update and do some nice obfuscated stuff in among it all.