"Nintendo 3DS Hacked One Day After Japanese Launch"

That's commonly seen on every gaming sites.

It's completely misleading in that, 3DS isn't hacked. It's only compatible with flash carts for DS games.

Simple put. Its backward compatibility is so good that it works on piracy, too.

It's really annoying to see them deliberatly put misleading titles just to hits.

Dude, post links.

You want me to bother going to 10 different sites just to get the link that nobody will click?

Here you go, even VGC news feed do it,

http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/84297/3ds-already-hacked-for-r4-use/

I just added a comment on an online spanish newspaper just about this.

They used this as the source

Ha!

Well that sucks. I've made my feelings about gaming journalism well known in the past and this only drives my disdain for the medium.

Pretty sure the R4 cards and its gazillion clones are still working on DSi. (Assuming you get your news in multiple places)

All sites that have tabloid like news system do this, just accept it and move (Wish we could do something about it, but we really can't). Ya I know it is sad that our site does it as well, but really we have enough threads talking about how bad article titles are these days. 

PCworld actually did it decently, but I guess that tidbit will be used by sites that arne't as knowledgable. 

The problem was that the newspaper read this line "(the 3DS plays older DS and DSi games)", and assumed you could "hack" DS and DSi games on the 3DS. That I know of, DSi games haven't been "hacked" yet.

news sites live and die on the number of hits they get, can you really blame them for attention grabing headlines?

if you want a real trololol go to the huffingtonpost.com or foxnews.com and look at all of the misleading, attention-grabing headlines on topics that actually matter.

I've noticed poor-quality stories and headlines more commonly on the newer/less respected sites.

Problem is, that's exactly WHY they're not respected. People get excited when they see these kinds of headlines. When they realize that they were misled, it only leaves a bad taste in their mouth about that story, and they're a lot less likely to return to said site in the future.

Do it over and over and over, and I know a disturbingly large number of people on a number of other sites (GameFAQs and IGN, most notably) who won't even talk to you if they know you're a VGC user - mostly because this site has NEVER really done anything to increase the quality of its news reporting.

There are pageviews, and then there's reputation and respect. I fully believe that a good reputation will equal a LOT more pageviews than an irritatingly misleading headline ever will.