On: Nintendo Developer Portal

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Not really, considering that PC development requires no special licenses or hardware, beyond what the average consumer already has.

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I was thinking about the console developer programs.

The PCs are just a part of the games industry.

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That's not true. My gaming PC costs about that much, and normal consumers don't have something like that.

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Would you have been able to develop for it on a budget rig?

Of course a nicer computer always helps, but honestly, even nano and gcc on a Pi can get you pretty far. There's a huge difference between "download this free software on your existing computer" and "beg us to sell you this $2k+ machine that will ONLY work for this one task".

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I would not develop software meant to run on specialized hardware like a modern gaming computer on something less powerful than the target platform. That's just asking for trouble.