Does Nintendo not realise that they are ENCOURAGING the cracking of the protection through their disgusting use of region-locking? I wouldn't mind having to buy foreign games as long as they WORKED rather than having to pirate them. This is almost as foolish as SONY removing OtherOS.

Good luck fighting piracy because you'll need it.

Obviously the hackers will hack 3DS and disable the option to install automatic updates.

simple message to nintendo if they happen to ever read what customers think, YOU ARE DUMB F**** i was going to buy a 3ds but what if a friend decides to pop his r4 card in or somthing, MY console gets bricked, forget letting people borrow your 3DS they might just do it to be pricks if you have had an argument, or if people with children let them take it to school or somthing and their friend sticks a flash card in it, THIS CRAP can go SOOOOOO wrong in so many ways, as for the people who mention pictures of children, would that actually make nintendo break the law if they are laying claim to any picture on your ds, i can just see perverts using that in court, the pictures arnt mine they are nintendos. i think nintendo are probably going to have to expand on that crap in their eula before someone tests it out in court

Why don't they just buy hardware akin to the 3ds' and Frankenstein that shit into a custom handheld running a custom os built to run their homebrews?

I've got no problem with hackers - these companies are trying to control their products to stop piracy. Pirates just don't want to pay for anything, which is really just childish and selfish.

If people don't like what nintendo/sony/microsoft/etc. are doing with their products then the simple answer is to not buy their products. If you're a hacker with any real talent/skill and you can afford a 3ds/ps3/etc then just do like I said before and build your own system. Form a company all your own that sells open source video game consoles and.. oh wait, right, who would buy one of those? No one. Why? because no devs would make games for them. Why? because their games would get pirated. Why? because that's the biggest reason people have for cracking their systems - to play pirated games. SO basically piracy is the real fuel for hacking a system.

So... fuck off? If you want to play a game that costs 20-90 bucks then go pay for it. You don't like anti-piracy measures? Fuck you for supporting piracy in the first place which is the only reason any company needs to protect their products from being pirated/hacked.

You say fuck me? i say FUCK YOU. Code for pc. Code for mac. Code for linux. make your own OS. Mangle hardware together and make your own personal homebrew player - just stop bitching about BUSINESSES trying to keep their BUSINESSES profitable. Fuck you you cheap little hobos - if you can't afford these overpriced games then WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING SITTING ON YOUR ASS PLAYING THEM ALL DAY? GET A JOB. SAVE YOUR MONEY AND FUND A GOOD EDUCATION. GET A BETTER JOB AND SAVE YOUR MONEY. THEN GO BUY EXPENSIVE VIDEO GAMES.

I say lol and get over it

I like that Nintendo is doing this, but what about our privacy? What if the update read the system files wrong and bricks your 3DS? Computers makes mistakes too. I maen totally bricking your device is little too much. I bet there will be at least one person affected by the update brick.

Hello.
Because if the rules and the way nintendo are implementing them they are misrepresenting the new 3ds. It should be able to play 3ds game out of the box, as that is how it is advertised. So when you have bought it you find after, the nintendo 3ds that cannot play new 3ds games untill you acept new terms. This is false advertising on nintenos part.
I hope this will be legally proven soon.

Admiral