That this is the same way the dramas with Hykem, Team Salt, and JustPingo began. Loads of hype, with the development looking really promising, a release date given a few months away or more, the developers answering questions which makes them lauded by all and celebrated, loads of hype with everyone being really excited, then no release, devs publicly quit or just fade away, and ensuing drama/memes.



In the Wii U's case, it severely stifled the scene. With a future release date set, and a developer that people believed in, what point was there in other people also pursuing hax? But that future date comes and goes, gets pushed back, comes and goes again, pushed back again .... and in the end, there's nothing. Squat. Zilch. And all that time someone else could have actually been developing something. After Hykem and Team Salt destroyed the scene, it got lucky again when the Brazillians came in with their release out of nowhere, and the scene suddenly came back to life and loads of people worked on multiple things and stuff actually started happening. But it all could have happened two years earlier if it wasn't for the aforementioned two.



Closed development + a long future release date [i.e. not just a few days for polishing and writing documentation/instructions] is an awful combination that only hurts things. The person who starts it usually (or always?) ends up quitting the project, the amount of time that passes hurts the scene, and obviously it frustrates hundreds of potential users. If I must be brutally honest, the thing that sways me to thinking history will repeat itself is, you could have released all this information under the Reswitched banner, and never put your name to it at all (and consulted with your colleagues on what they think should be communicated, to boot). Or, you know, just not said anything until the exploit notification period had elapsed and release was imminent. If being famous wasn't on your agenda, then you would have done this. So either you're interested in fame and all will go well [my fingers are crossed for this option] or you're interested in fame and there's going to be a lot of drama in this forum in a few months. Not having fame as a priority isn't possible.



I would say I am about 65% sure, on the information I have seen so far, that come July or August, some unforseen problem is going to come up and the release date is going to be pushed back or put on hold indefinitely. And during that time, we won't see TX's solution, because they've put development on hold or canned it due to your communications to the public (as they wouldn't be making much money) and the other teams probably won't be actively working on anything, since it is a waste of time if they can wait for Reswitched's release and build on that. I want to do cool stuff with my Switch as much as the next girl so I will be incredibly happy to be wrong. In fact, everyone is welcome to quote this post come release and rub my nose in it as much as they want - because that means I'll have CFW on my Switch, so I'll be absolutely ecstatic and nothing will be able to bring me down.

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