So does it target specific wi-fi signals or the specific 3DS itself? If I can't play my 3DS on college campus for fear of someone else using the same connection and pirating then I will be an angry ANGRY Panda.
Nintendo Can Disable a Pirate's 3DS Remotely
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For all i care, i won't be usingwifi, since it CAN be turned off, and I won't definatly be playing games. Like someone else said, the mob mentality here is outstanding. Yes, there can be mistakes as in Nintendo bricking someone who didn't deserve it, but if it ultimatly help to reduce Piracy, i don't mind at all.
Hell, my guess is htye will be very, VERY conservative using this to prevent evetual lawsuits, so no big harm would be done, it's not like the end of the world or anything.
Hell, my guess is htye will be very, VERY conservative using this to prevent evetual lawsuits, so no big harm would be done, it's not like the end of the world or anything.
When I buy a console I make a note to myself to only buy official products for it. That's because I only buy games that I know are good and will have fun with. Besides, pirating consoles is a huge pain in the ass, though in Greece everyone and their dog had a pirated PS2 and they looked at me funny when I told them that all the 34 games I own are official.
But, after reading this, I am hesitant to buy a 3DS, because I am afraid I will do something to anger it, something irrelevant to piracy, mind you, but who guarantees that the device won't just snap and do whatever it likes?
But, after reading this, I am hesitant to buy a 3DS, because I am afraid I will do something to anger it, something irrelevant to piracy, mind you, but who guarantees that the device won't just snap and do whatever it likes?
well i aint buying one now, not because of pirating as i have (arguably) never pirated anything in my life. but i am not taking the chance that some cock-up at Nintendo could cause my device to shut itself down turning it into an expensive paperweight.
I'm glad someone actually read the source. That being said, even if it was true... I honestly wouldn't give a shit. I'm not planning on pirating any game for the 3DS so I'm doubting it will really effect me and I'm not really all that bothered with the whole morality behind it. I just buy consoles to play games not to start throwing an hissy fit when ever the company does something I don't like.JediMB said:
Specially not to the point that I'll start screaming "Screw you, you've lost another customer" as if it solves anything.
this makes me wonder... i just bought a flashcart for my dsi to back up all my legally purchased games, so i can have one cartridge for all of them, cause i tend to lose things. I also use it to run some other programs and apps, all of which are 100% legal. Now how will Nintendo deal with that? I'm almost tempted to go get a 3ds, run my flashcart full of perfectly legal content, and sue the pants of nintendo for briking my system. im seeing lost of bad for nintendo if they go thru with this, similar to what sony is facing now with all the hackers pulling apart the PS3 on line of code after another.
Sovvolf said:
*reads rest of the thread and sees this*
well that changes things a bit. things so boring at the escapist these days we have to twist a story? tsk tsk.
This won't punish pirates who figure out a way around it.
This WILL punish victims of inevitable false positives, though. But I suppose they had it coming, not being pirates and all.
EDIT - Posted this before I saw the rest of the thread. That'll learn me. Disregard...
This WILL punish victims of inevitable false positives, though. But I suppose they had it coming, not being pirates and all.
EDIT - Posted this before I saw the rest of the thread. That'll learn me. Disregard...
Because people don't know any better? Quite honestly, "we" are not the people who are going to be buying the 3DS. Most people who buy them will be the parents of small children. That's just who Nintendo targets now (small children, not their parents).GiantRaven said:
And we can all just look at Fox News to see that a majority of parents/adults are incapable of doing their research..
No thank you
I think that when you buy something it is yours and yours alone. If nintendo has the power to shut it off like that then it is not really yours at all.
I have never pirated a game in my life, but I would be afraid of facing the hell of getting my console to work again if a mistake was made.
Ever tried phoning nintendo?
I think that when you buy something it is yours and yours alone. If nintendo has the power to shut it off like that then it is not really yours at all.
I have never pirated a game in my life, but I would be afraid of facing the hell of getting my console to work again if a mistake was made.
Ever tried phoning nintendo?
Hay Nintendo guess what I didnt plan to get your 3DS til 2nd or 3rd version but if they have this bullshit and region locks I will not get your handheld.
Oh come on, nobody believes this crap right? There's a fatal flaw in the logic behind this stupid rumor. They claim that Nintendo let flashcards run on purpose so they could track them. Except there is this small, teeny tiny fact that Nintendo doesn't let flash cards run on the 3DS. Those videos you saw of the R4 running on it to play regular DS games? Yeah, 3DS doesn't do that out of the box. They had to trick the system into thinking the cards were on the system's whitelist of things it can play. That means Nintendo didn't let the cards run on purpose to track when people use one. Hence, stupid rumor falls flat on its face, and to the people who created it, I can only say DURPY DEEEEEEEEEERP!
For an added bonus, check the sources. They don't actually have any proof. It's all just speculation. One author thinks this could happen. Another has a poster from a store that says they don't want trade ins if you used a flash card because they think Nintendo could brick them. There's a whole lot of thinking going on and no actual proof that Nintendo even has this capability, let alone would use it if it had it. The people in those articles are thinking, and now it's time for the rest of you guys to start thinking as well and realize that this both makes no sense and there is no proof that this is true anyway.
For an added bonus, check the sources. They don't actually have any proof. It's all just speculation. One author thinks this could happen. Another has a poster from a store that says they don't want trade ins if you used a flash card because they think Nintendo could brick them. There's a whole lot of thinking going on and no actual proof that Nintendo even has this capability, let alone would use it if it had it. The people in those articles are thinking, and now it's time for the rest of you guys to start thinking as well and realize that this both makes no sense and there is no proof that this is true anyway.
Oh, awesome. Other people realize that this is bollocks. I'm not alone!Sovvolf said:
You know this does actually bring up the possibility for some interesting lawsuits. Just recently a judge decided that just because something is in your EULA doesn't necessarily make it an absolute law in a case with Blizzard, and this looks like it might fall somewhere into that jurisdiction. It essentially amounts to the company that sold you your device deliberately infecting you with a virus. Justified or not, it would be interesting to see how that holds up in the court of law.
