The rumors were true: Nintendo games can now play themselves!

[SJGohan3972]

I highly doubt Nintendo will punish people for using this feature, that would be counter-productive to what they are trying to accomplish (enticing new players to play the game, punishment will not do that) - they will however reward those who don't use it.

Look at it this way: Nintendo is trying to make their games fun, if it's fun for you to play the game on your own with now hints or strategy guides that's fine and you should feel that sense of accomplsihment when you can beat a game on your own, but for some people being stuck on a hard part of a game is frustrating and not fun at all and the sense of accomplishment when (or if) they get past that hard part isn't enough to justify the frustration so they use strategy guides or simply quit playing the game. Nintendo is simply trying to make it fun for everyone, if you don't like it then don't use it.

I personally will probably try it out once to see how it works then never utilize it again, but I hope others do - if that makes the game more fun, by removing frustrating parts, for them.