Innervate on 05 December 2009
| .jayderyu said: It's an easy solution that Nintendo has a dense skull about. They want to stop flash cards for piracy. Which I think we can all agree with, but the problem with is that Hombrew is not illegal and Nintendo provides no development capability outside licensed. Honestly I suspect Nintendo is more against homebrew than piracy. What good is selling a music player when you can get one by homebrew. All Nintendo has to do is provided a authorized running environment for homebrew. Then there will be no massive attempt to run unauthorized code. If there is no massive attempt to break the security then people can't run the pirate games. It's really simple really. The universe is all about balance. Give and Take. In and Out, Yin and Yang. If all you do is one then you can bet that the other falls out of balance and breaks. If Nintendo gives a little then the homebrew would take less. If Nintendo was open to being given too it would also be a better position. Heck the homebrew community has even tried to help Nintendo. In the case of Bushing trying to point out flaws in the Wii security. Did they listen, nope Nintendo just threatened him. At least MS actually had some it's hackers come to the office to help secure the system a little more. Casino slot makers hired the biggest slots cheater. Poker cheaters are hired to teach security how to track it. Every serious money industry hires cheaters to improve. Why do console feel they are better? Seriously any judge backing Nintendo on this would only have small minded impression at the greater picture of security. |
Nintendo makes a significant amount of money off of licensing fees. All hardware manufacturers do. It shouldn't be a surprise that companies like Nintendo do not like non licensed software being run on their closed platform. Nintendo wants you to use their hardware to run software that either they made or was paid to licensed on the system.
I like homebrew too, but why should any company that profits from licensing allow it? All it would do is promote consumers to not buy licensed software, which eats at their profits. I apologize if this seems rude, but just because you want something doesn't mean you are entitled to it.
