Nintendo: "Heyday of Piracy" Is Over

[ZephrC]

Did anybody in this entire thread even read the article? Nobody said that the 3DS was unhackable, the guy said he thought piracy in general had peaked, which simply means he thinks it's going to slowly lessen from here, and that the 3DS was the hardest to hack piece of equipment Nintendo has ever made.

I suspect both of those things are true, and I suspect that anyone smart enough to hack this thing recognizes that as well. It will be hacked eventually, but my guess is that it will last longer than most people in this thread think. The question is how easy will it be for a 12 year old to implement the hack once it's completed. That'll be the real measure of how useful their fancy new anti-piracy garbage is. I suspect Nintendo is smart enough not to punish their legitimate customers, despite how badly the Escapist seems to want Nintendo to be the bad guy.

 

[MercurySteam]

Whatever helps you sleep at night Honeywell.

 

[MercurySteam]

£5 on 2 weeks please John. Start taking bets people
I got 4:1 on 2 weeks, any takers?

I'm thinking for every single unit sold, four hacked units will sell in Hong Kong for half the RRP.

 

[The Rockerfly]

£5 on 2 weeks please John. Start taking bets people
I got 4:1 on 2 weeks, any takers?

I'm thinking for every single unit sold, four hacked units will sell in Hong Kong for half the RRP.

The scary thing is, that might not be much of a joke

 

[Ken Sapp]

Doesn't every company say this... AT THE RELEASE OF EVERY CONSOLE EVER?!

I don't think MS said anything about the 360 being uncrackable, only that anyone caught using a hacked or modded 360 on XBox Live would have their user account and console banned. Much better course if you ask me as it says you can play with the toys however you want in your sandbox but if you want to play in the public sandbox then you have to follow the rules or go back to your own.

 

[luas_dublin]

yeah , they really wanted to make sure they screwed the last penny out of non US/jap gamers this time , and region locking is a great way to do that.
(by the way have you seen the pricing difference the US price is about 250 right? , the UK price is £229..which is about 365 dollars!
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/9324196/c_1/1|category_root|Video+games|14419738/c_2/2|14419738|Ninendo+3DS|25696310.htm#pdpFullProductInformation )

 

[Hunter65416]

Well.. I guess its gonna be cracked then

 

[MercurySteam]

£5 on 2 weeks please John. Start taking bets people
I got 4:1 on 2 weeks, any takers?

I'm thinking for every single unit sold, four hacked units will sell in Hong Kong for half the RRP.

The scary thing is, that might not be much of a joke

So is the world, I'm afraid.

 

[Nick Holmgren]

so, when the 3ds is cracked a week BEFORE the street date, can we lol off as one?

 

[Reincarnatedwolfgod]

i give them a month or less to crack it.
never give pirates a challenge

 

[James Raynor]

So can people please post when the 3DS actually gets cracked? I wanna see how long it actually lasted.

 

[Bad Jim]

Explains the black-on-red things that flummox a monochrome copier, but code wheels? With a three-layered code wheel you can either take forever copying each permutation or dismantle the code wheel and copy each layer and make people build their own code wheel, which is a crafts project most people won't bother with.

It would be trivially easy to write a program that displays 2-3 images and allows you to rotate them around a center pivot. If codewheels became common, someone would write it and make it available for download. Assuming there is anyone who wouldn't just download cracks instead.

 

[SarahKH]

An "they are NOT going to crack our hardware/software" statement, in the long line of such statements, that were always proved laughably false.

3 days.

0day, 2 days max.

Challenge issued and all that.

 

[Cryo84R]

Self righteous nerds out for a free lunch at the expense of developers and factory workers will love this.

 

[Idocreating]

What they think is that pirates are stupid people.
Which is wrong, because there are brilliant people on both sides and what I would do is that I would hire the pirates to my company and test my DRM and actually make recommendations.
To perfect something then you have to come to the enemy.

It is from their foes, not there friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls.

Thought that quote was a good one for the Masonry tech in Civ4. And Nimoy's voice.

 

[fulano]

I give it a week. Add one day if the device is as good as he says.

 

[Callate]

Oh, I think it will take a while. The hardware is very, very new, and I don't think there's going to be a lot of eagerness to dismantle an expensive game console early on to figure out how it works, how to emulate it, how the protective code is handled, and (presumably) how to disable the likely attempts by the hardware to connect to central servers through WiFi to check its own authorizations and updates.

But it will happen. It might take anywhere up to a year. But it will happen.

 

[Gindil]

So can people please post when the 3DS actually gets cracked? I wanna see how long it actually lasted.

I'll start a new thread when it happens.