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by bee_rider 877 days ago
It has around a 1Ghz cpu, you have no idea if their little homebrew games will stress that or need all the assembly tuning.

Kids have programmed games for their calculators. This is like “throw it together to show off your friends,” it doesn’t need to meet Nintendo’s UI standards.

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> This is like “throw it together to show off your friends,” it doesn’t need to meet Nintendo’s UI standards.

In that case, unless it goes on the eShop (thus meeting Nintendo's standards), every single one of her friends will also need a devkit to be able to run it; as retail units can't decrypt devkit-encrypted games, nor vice versa.

Might as well get a Steam Deck before convincing Nintendo to send over 10 devkits for children.