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0 pointsjacquesm2y ago0 comments

But average quality was a bit higher because nobody thought 'oh, we'll fix that next week in the OTA update'.

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I don’t think so. This is the same thought people apply to cartridge based games for example, before software updates.

But the reality is that the same types of bugs would likely exist. Nothing about the engineering aspects has really changed other than more features. All that would happen is future revisions would have it fixed and early buyers would be stuck.

jacquesmOP2y ago

The types of bugs were similar but the bug count was entirely different. Typically on a 16K ROM you'd have two or three known bugs after the product was in the market for a while and maybe years later you'd find another one by re-reading the code and realizing that if you tweak things just so you can get the product to misbehave.

But you're not looking at near endless lists of known issues and 'wontfix' wasn't a thing back then.

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dagmx2y ago

I don’t think so. This is the same thought people apply to cartridge based games for example, before software updates.

jacquesmOP2y ago

But you're not looking at near endless lists of known issues and 'wontfix' wasn't a thing back then.

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