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How is that a rip off? You pay 20€ once and get the ability to sideload any UWP app and develop for the console.
Compare it to both Nintendo and Sony where:
- You have to pay multiple times the price of the console for the dev kit
- You don’t own said dev kit
- Their SDKs are not publicly accessible
- You have to sign multiple NDAs on top of all those issues
- Assuming you have no problem with all this, you can be rejected as a developer for any reason
Considering how locked consoles were and still are (Except for the PS3 “other OS”) period. Being able to get a decent current gen console, that doubles as an emulator, with development capabilities for an additional 20 euros is a gift, not a rip-off.
It’s fine. He just exchanged trademarks with Egosoft https://twitter.com/EGOSOFT/status/1683477783584858115 so he is in the clear 👍