valen200 on 29 January 2008
One of the reasons lockout codes exist is ET and similar games that killed the atari. Nintendo was afraid of a glut of terrible games and they enforced some fairly strict rules for who and how a game could be released on their system.
The system of paying to license a game still exists, but I don't know how many terrible game it prevents anymore. Of course, if there was no cost at all to put a game on the Wii (or on any system for that matter) imagine how many more terrible games would be released by companies like Conspiracy and other sixth rate companies.
"But as always, technology refused to be dignity's bitch."--Vance DeGeneres
