Nintendo has lost a major court battle today over the production of flash cartridges for its DS handheld, according to reports, after a judge ruled that developers should be allowed to develop applications for the platform at their own free will.
Nintendo apparently filed a suit against the Divineo group over the production of flash carts for the handheld.
It's reported that the judge, however, ruled against Nintendo, accusing it of locking out developers from its consoles, and suggesting that the platform should be more like Microsoft's Windows operating system, on which applications can be developed freely by anyone.
This, as Maxconsole notes, is a huge blow to Nintendo in the fight against flash cart-based piracy, as it could suggest the distribution of such devices should be deemed completely legal.
Nintendo has been embroiled in an epic struggle against widespread DS piracy, particularly threatening action against sellers of the popular R4 flash cart.
I can understand the judges point of view and in that sense agree with him/her. But am just wondering if he/she took into account their capabilities of pirating games as well?
I can understand the judges point of view and in that sense agree with him/her. But am just wondering if he/she took into account their capabilities of pirating games as well?
I agree. I think there should be plenty of opportunity to develop custom software, but without running the risk of promoting piracy or development of harmful code. XNA is a great example of this, providing a safe platform for would-be developers to show off their stuff.
This kinda of decision is going to hit paying consumers hard and move digital distribution forward.
If you can't beat the pirates then systems will see increased security next generation and maybe more consoles will go down the PSPGo route quicker than expected.
The main reason Nintendo is attacking this is piracy, and nobody is telling me that 99% of people purchasing these devices use them for anything other than piracy. Just like people who mod their XBoxes.
If we do see digi dist prices will be set and you can forget finding a bargain because you will only be able to buy the games direct.
Well your all lucky I wasn't the judge. I would have been on nintendo's side 100%!!!
People getting thier hard work for free against their will is stealling as far as I am concerned! And not only that, it is completly unfair on those who buy DS games leagally.
It is a discrase and if I had my way, every single person who got caught getting ds games illegally would have to pay back double the retail price for each and very one of the games they downloaded.
One thing to consider is that most platforms have an opportunity to try a game via a demo. Could Nintendo not use this as an opportunity to get developers to put out a form of demo that can be used by these flash carts? Never know, might encourage a few sales...
Lol MSoft would have to unban 1 million 360's in that case. Can't see this being upheld myself as noted above it would open the consoles to piracy even easier than it is now.
I hope machines in the future will adopt the same method as the PS3. Allow the use of Linux so home coders can do what they like. Nintendo have always been to worst to embrace homebrew stuff. Although MS are better, they still suck when it comes to homebrew. XNA is very elitest and very hard to pull out of when you've had enough. There is only one way to cancel your XNA membership, and that is to phone MS up. bottomholes, that phone call took ages!
It seems to me that some individuals are focusing only on the possibility of piracy with R4 cards. Try to consider the positives of this ruling: it now legally allows third parties to develop new software for the DS and for users to legitimately buy said software without actually being "pirates". This could be highly beneficial to all parties involved; the third party developers now have the freedom to develop for the handheld without being at the mercy of Nintendo, the customers can now look forward to more software in various forms - some of which may end up being in styles that Nintendo would not have considered or allowed in the past - and it might also result in better prices for the customers since it can increase competition. Finally, Nintendo could also stand to benefit from this if it chooses to use it as a marketing point (i.e. "Look kids! Our handheld can now also be used with X amount of other stuff!) which may result in even more DS sales.
Technology and tools always possess the ability to be used for good or evil. It's referred to as "dual use". If you only focus on what might be done with something in a negative light without also considering the potential positive gains, then you essentially end up suffocating innovation. Besides, do you really want a single company to have a monopoly on any given platform?
A majority of the DS stuff is utter drivel, and charging 29.99 for games like this is a criminal act in itself. If nintendo genuinally Want to stamp out piracy they should look at apples model, some great games at no more than 5.99, a lot of which are better than their DS equivelent
A majority of the DS stuff is utter drivel, and charging 29.99 for games like this is a criminal act in itself. If nintendo genuinally Want to stamp out piracy they should look at apples model, some great games at no more than 5.99, a lot of which are better than their DS equivelent
A majority of the DS stuff is utter drivel, and charging 29.99 for games like this is a criminal act in itself. If nintendo genuinally Want to stamp out piracy they should look at apples model, some great games at no more than 5.99, a lot of which are better than their DS equivelent
A majority of the DS stuff is utter drivel, and charging 29.99 for games like this is a criminal act in itself. If nintendo genuinally Want to stamp out piracy they should look at apples model, some great games at no more than 5.99, a lot of which are better than their DS equivelent
A majority of the DS stuff is utter drivel, and charging 29.99 for games like this is a criminal act in itself. If nintendo genuinally Want to stamp out piracy they should look at apples model, some great games at no more than 5.99, a lot of which are better than their DS equivelent
A majority of the DS stuff is utter drivel, and charging 29.99 for games like this is a criminal act in itself. If nintendo genuinally Want to stamp out piracy they should look at apples model, some great games at no more than 5.99, a lot of which are better than their DS equivelent
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