Nintendo 3DS: Fight Against Piracy
Nintendo 3DS
It’s no secret that Nintendo has been battling the piracy of their DS games for months now, but Satoru Iwata now aims to implement technological attempts to halt, or at least stall, piracy on the Nintendo 3DS.
In an interview, Iwata acknowledged that piracy is a serious issue, especially with their handheld consoles. Both the Wii and Nintendo DS are plagued by the issue of piracy. He states that the issue has reached the point where it is not feasible to bring it to a stop. However, Nintendo is trying to take a legal and technological approach to dealing with the matter.
To be honest, I do not think there is a way that they will be able to stop the piracy of their consoles or handheld systems anymore. There is now money to be made by pirating Nintendo products. The AceKard currently sells a cartridge that allows you to be able to download and play any Nintendo DS game of your choice. Before that, there was a Gameboy Advanced cartrige that performed the same function. The hackers will always be quick to hack a Nintendo product, so they can sell the next hacked product.
The Nintendo 3DS will be no different, especially considering that there will be an even larger fanbase than its predecessor. The 3DS has an appeal to both the casual and hardcore gamers of the video game community. It sports advanced graphical capabilities, processing speeds and the feature of 3D without having to wear glasses. So, even though Nintendo may try to implement some sort of technological safeguard against pirates, it most likely will fail and there will be a hack for the Nintendo 3DS within a week of its release.
People do not seem to know the damage they are doing by pirating games. It is a bitter sweet thing for Nintendo as a company. Piracy sells consoles, simply put. My brother literally bought a Nintendo DS with the sole intention of hacking it. Since hacking and piracy has become so mainstream, so easy, many people are buying the console with the knowledge that they will never have to buy the game again. However, even though piracy does sell games, it scares away developers.
Developers will not want to develope a game for a system when no one will buy it. Many video game sales drop on the Nintendo DS because piracy is so rampant. It is even more devestating to the bigger named titles because piracy is in greater demand for them. The Nintendo 3DS has great potential. However, developers will not take a chance on that potential f it only means that their game will be pirated to no end.
How Nintendo will deal with piracy is yet to be determined. It will be interesting to see the approach they take, though. The greatest possible method they may have can be legal action, but that would require time and money, which I am not sure they are ready to spend.
Iwata – Piracy has crossed a threshold where it’s hard to stop, new steps to be taken with 3DS [GoNintendo]
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