ampillion said:
Way too early to think that 'zomg, everyone who owns wii is pirating!'. First, Nintendo's already working to foil any modders. Secondly, pirating has been an issue for awhile, and modders are going to do whatever possible to mod their systems. But a majority of owners aren't going to crack their system open and solder stuff to their board. Third, I believe I recall them already working on BR writers for PCs? So it'd only be a matter of time before they did the same for the PS3. Pirates are going to pirate regardless. It's up to the makers to duke it out as long as possible, and showing the market you're going to fight to keep as much pirating off your system as possible, is usually enough to instill some confidence in developers.
Also, I think the idea that money is the only motivation is there, but dependant on the amount of money the company is making. If a company has come into hard times, struggling to make profits, or projects fell short of expectations, they might be a lot less motivated to do something artsy or risky and outside the general market. You can make a quirky or more abstract game if you're looking at a decent income flow.
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Not really too early to think. It is already happening. Wii got hacked within a month. You should see the amount of torrent downloads for Wii games. And BD writers are already on the market for like 2 mths. PS3 hacking is still in the development. I will not mod my PS3, but I did mod my Wii. Why? Who ask nintendo to keep region coding. Why must I buy a Jap Wii to play Jap games and an US Wii to play US games? Until they realize that region coding must go(like PS3), I will support mod-chips. But thats just me, and I believe majority of the modders are in for the piracy.
Even with the availability of BD writers... It is not as simple a task as DVD writers and downloading 4.7gb of data. This isn't fool-proof, but at least it makes it harder.
