3DS hacking developments come so rapidly that unless we had a writer specifically focused on covering that material in something like a weekly editorial it would quickly muddy up the front page.
The staff (most of them) have little interest in the current Nintendo platforms.how come the frontpage news are like 9/10 random game announcements?
i always thought scene meant something different than gaming general
The staff (most of them) have little interest in the current Nintendo platforms.
By and large, they were around as youngsters when the DS/Wii/GBA were killing it in the console market. Nowadays, the 3ds and WiiU aren't as attractive as Sony or PC/Steam to their more adult taste in gaming.
I still find Nintendo's games and platforms simple and fun so, meh, I stuck around with them.
(and their shit is easier to hack, yay ;p)
The staff (most of them) have little interest in the current Nintendo platforms.
By and large, they were around as youngsters when the DS/Wii/GBA were killing it in the console market. Nowadays, the 3ds and WiiU aren't as attractive as Sony or PC/Steam to their more adult taste in gaming.
I still find Nintendo's games and platforms simple and fun so, meh, I stuck around with them.
(and their shit is easier to hack, yay ;p)
To an extent, however I am still up for the GBA and DS libraries and when I was doing things like http://gbatemp.net/threads/links-to-various-gbatemp-features-over-the-years.352851/ I would look up devs and they were nowhere to be seen for the 3ds (or they migrated to andrios*). The Nintendo first party stuff/captive dev seems to be basically the same as the GBA and DS, maybe with a slight lick of paint, so I can see similar things happening which I would welcome, however it did not and I am left with the Nintendo first party offerings, and not even the ones I liked like Advance Wars, which is as good as nothing at all.
*the rapid slowdown of the DS homebrew releases coincided with a lot of such games and devs looking at IOS, which android has since swallowed, so I do not hold out the most hope for the 3ds homebrew scene either.
I am not going to diss anybody for making 3ds homebrew, or indeed following it all. However should someone ask me if it is a viable platform for development or is likely to be competitive with contemporary devices (the GBA and DS represented good options for portable devices, even the wii did OK as device to stick under your TV and play emulators on, today there is far more competition which does better still -- nothing is quite as refined as the likes of the original xbox or something but code twice as slow does not matter when the device is ten times as fast).
"But we have to be happy and thankful for what we got."
I like games, I like homebrew, I like emulators. Going where the action is rather than getting scraps is the better plan from where I sit.
"gba & nds hacking and homebrew is not that relevant nowadays."
In terms of volume of news generated then sure, though the ROM hacking for both is probably producing more of merit than the 3ds, and people having DS flash carts to play with the homebrew and emulators from that is doing the 3ds some favours.
On those more eager then we have always recruited from those that do.