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Hi devs, nice work. That was quick.

First and foremost: Of the devs that are following along this thread, who has spent the most time playing BOTW? Real question.

Another one: Why do you think Nintendo failed learn their lesson the first and second times?




I don't know that any of us have really spent too much time with it. I played for about 5 minutes and got frustrated, haha.

In terms of failing to learn their lesson, I think that it actually remains to be seen, to an extent. They failed by including an old WebKit bug, but the bigger failure was outsourcing their browser code in whole; that makes patching things so, so much harder. We'll see how bad the other layers are, but we've barely scratched the surface there.


They didn't exactly fail to learn lessons. They definately did. But it's a learn by experience thing. You can't learn from a mistake you don't know you made. And hackers aren't going to break through the window when the door's unlocked. So until they patch the easy stuff, the hard stuff will never be exploited. Live and learn I guess.


I don't believe Nintendo "failed to learn their lesson" the first time (I'd assume Wii) or second time (3DS?) I believe they were just dismissive of a lot of the things, because they were inexperienced. I still believe they are pretty inexperienced as it stands with a few of the things that they have done recently.




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