If it was Microsoft or Nintendo being hacked would it be as bad?

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Mr Khan said:

Seece said:

No, Sony arnt being attacked so much for the fact they were hacked, but more so the fact they made some pretty stupid decisions in the security area of things.

Does make me wonder how secure Nintendo's network is though, given you would have thought Sony would be ahead of Ninty in all respects when it comes to online. Can you even store a CC on a Wii account though? or is it all points?

All points, and you have to manually re-enter your card number for each purchase. It's too low-tech to hack, and the points aren't redeemable or transferable and are 100% bound to the Wii itself and linked to no existing internet account. Likewise all of Wii's online gaming is peer-to-peer connected, and thus it would be very hard to hack the network itself beyond screwing up specific localized games, and even then only temporary.

Worst they could do is knock out the shop channel as a discrete service, or knock out WiiConnect24 (though i don't know why anyone would bother)

Nintendo's system is too archaic to make hacking worthwhile

XDDDD I find it hilarious that Nintendo is too archeic for anyone to really want to hack it.  Maybe nintendo knew about this all along?!? lol