In Other News....3:44 PM
Sunday, March 16, 2008
I've always wondered why nintendo has been so pirate friendly recently. After all, not too long ago, nintendo consoles still ran on cartridges that made piracy really difficult. but of course the wii was modified within weeks of its release and playing pirated games on the ds is easier than poking a straw through the top of a bottle of yakult.
all this changed recently.
it was all a ploy by nintendo. You see, the console market has always been dominated by the ones that are the most pirate friendly. thus explaining the success of the ps and the ps2. however, having pirate friendly consoles meant that game developers lost money. since the biggest game developers for nintendo were nintendo (best selling games are mario and zelda) they kept anti-piracy measures rather strict and thus lost market share to sony.
so now nintendo learnt from their mistakes. while sony makes its consoles near impossible to pirate with blu-ray and constant psp firmware updates. nintendo steadily allows its wii and ds to be the top-selling consoles on the market by making it super pirate friednly.
Then when consumers are lulled into a false sense of security, they STRIKE swiflty and with great prejudice with THIS!
isn't this the cutest little error message ever? well it isn't! It's been dubbed the "thank you for playing error message from hell" the "moogle of death" that affects pirated ds that try to play final fantasy crystal chronicles:ring of fates.
wii owners are not spared when they are AMBUSHED unawares with THIS!
when they attempt to play super smash bros brawl on a modified wii. even those who bought an original copy of ssb are not spared. all modified wiis are affected. poor james has been severely dealt a blow because of this. especially since ssb is THE game for the wii.
nintendo has issued their ultimatum... the reckoning is upon us...
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Why is there a picture of some boats here? It's because I'm too lazy to link another picture. First I'd have to find a pic which is the right size,
then I have to upload it. Then I have to hope the pic stays there and doesn't get deleted from the image hosting website. Bah leave it as a boat. I'm too lazy to change it.