subject: Nintendo Will Beat Piracy By Means Of Updates [print this page] Yo ho ho as well as a bottle of ROMYo ho ho as well as a bottle of ROM. Nintendo is there to sail and blast those scurvy pirates from the open sea.
Piracy is a huge major hassle for videogame companies, particularly in the hardware market, where the two Nintendo DS (Nintendo DS R4 and R4 DS) and Sony PSP continue in order to hackers that continue to keep bypass their haphazard security measures. While Nintendo was rather coy in admitting that their game sales suffer as a consequence of pirates, they're beyond sold on going through them with all the new tricks associated with their upcoming handheld.
For the 3DS, Nintendo already has some ideas in ways to maintain pirates due to their new handheld. The earliest big step involves the installation of auto updates. While using the Wii and DS consoles, system updates released by Nintendo must be manually updated by owners, who wouldnt even be handed a notification make fish an update was available. As a result, anyone doing it's the preferred option R4 Card to experience handheld backups around the DS, or those people that used homebrew about the Wii, could simply choose not to update their systems, thus rendering Nintendos anti-piracy measures useless.
However the 3DS, the handheld is enough the updating for you personally. Called SpotPass, the 3DS will be buying WiFi hotspot to get in touch and download the mandatory firmware, always making sure the ipad is up to around date. While pirates could disable this feature so your 3DS remains offline, Nintendo also lists intends to include firmware updates incorporated into game cartridges, which applies updates with no need for online connectivity.
A commendable strategy, but a majority of are worried that such updates could wind up taking space inside 3DS cartridges, which you'll find already listed to be a rather low 2GB. Fortunately, Nintendo expects that number to restore, claiming in which the cartridges are hoped for to get a major increase in your ROM capacity, essentially having a good amount of space due to the top-of-the-line 3D games in addition to offline updates to stay the pirates away. Time will statewhether the battle will shift in the experienced Ns favor.
