Homebrew development for 7th gen home consoles

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Published on 2010-12-21T00:42:06Z Indexed on 2010/12/28 1:02 UTC
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I'm looking to do some homebrew development for either the Wii, Xbox360 or PS3. I'll be developing from a Linux system. The programming language doesn't matter.

Wii - devkitPPC and libogc look fairly easy and complete
Xbox360 - Mono.XNA looks interesting but not very feature complete
PS3 - psl1ght seems interesting but I haven't been able to find out much

How homebrew friendly are each of these consoles? Is someone able to give a comparison of each of these scenes?

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