This would be so awesome.They should snapshot their faces too right when it happens for our entertainment! Hell, make it a app!

Also, I forgot who brought it up, but you do know Nintendo/Sony/MS make a lot more off software and the royalties than they ever have a console.

Right... you "back up" games.

In all seriousness, I have no problem with backing games up, but that's really not what flashcards are being used for.

Anyone that claims that they'll lose hardware sales over this is a fool. They'd obvioiusly buy the 3DS, whether they can use flashcards on it or not.

LOL, I would love to see the expresions of the damn pirates when their 3DS is bricked or just simply banned.

I don't know about the bricking rumour but keeping a log of activity is a smart move. I can see online and wi-fi features being blocked though.

I think the gen after the next gen we'll see the first DD only consoles.  It's worked great on PC with Steam.  4G is supposed to aim for 100Gbit/s (~12.5 MB/s).  At that speed, downloading a 10GB game takes under 15 minutes.  That's ON YOUR PHONE.  In 4-5 years this will be standard.  Unless ISPs can somehow convince people that it's still reasonable to charge twice the price for 1/10-1/100th the speed on CABLE vs. wireless, home speeds will be even faster.

If they could have disabled all flash cart functionality, don't you think they would have?

I think it's because they had to have DS backwards compatibility in the 3DS; it seems that the flash carts are too similar to actual DS game carts to block one without the other

It would be a legal nightmare for Nintendo, class actions and such. The no trade in is different, and I agree with that, but bricking is going too far.

How is it going too far? Just look at Sony's case right now or their banning ways. If this is what piracy has lead to, then so be it.

No matter what I don't think Nintendo would go as far as bricking your console on purpose. There might be other sanctions, but not this.