Nintendo’s newly launched 3DS has reportedly already been cracked to run pirated software, amidst sales said to have reached 400,000.
Videos purport to show the 3DS running copied DS games without much issue:
3DS software has yet to be cracked, although with Nintendo apparently not even bothering to break ubiquitous piracy methods from the DS-era consoles, it does not seem a crack will be long in coming.
The evident lack of effort put into protecting the console has already prompted speculation that Nintendo is quietly using mass piracy as a means of increasing market penetration.
Nintendo reportedly shipped (as opposed to sold) at least 400,000 units on the first day, which have supposedly sold out in most stores – although such reports appear to be based largely on the less than reliable observations of journalists attracted to product launch stories involving long queues.
By comparison, the DS sold 441,485 in its first week, although the 3DS costs approximately $100 more than DS did at its launch.
Nintendo is also suspected of deliberately restricting supply of many of its new products to create an impression of strong sales and scant stocks, so it may be wiser to wait for official sales figures before judging its initial reception – although it appears undeniable the 3DS is off to a reasonable start.
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Is that even a real 3DS? It doesn’t look like one…
GUYS IT’S ALL A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT
Lulz…..another FanBoy feels the sting & burn of Artefacts journalist whip!
Hey, what if they let 3rd parties develop for “My Eyes! They Bleeeed! V1.0” aka the “Virtual Boy”…? To compensate for the lack of “Official” stuff they’d have tons of personally developed apps with the home computer programmed flash-rom chips and they’d have well made back their investment making more VB units and the occasional game… It’d be a dream for emulation of the earliest days of arcade. Frankly, say “either they make their own ROM of Space Invaders or YOU license your ancient video games these people played as bratty lads to get a few $ off of them”.
I know, (1) during college dayz one of my “Intern” products was a now defunct computer company who bet and thanks to Nintendo denying a license lost it all making “Tarnsman of Gor” for the VirtualBoy…
It was a wonderful immersive game, even with the lack of detail possible. Had taverns and throne rooms where Kajira danced, that was a sub-game, “Training” the bitches to behave and please men! Then there was the Tarn battle scenes, the wilderness sword play, etc… And we were making a Japanese version, too with Anime inspired art, called “Fencer of Minerva” based on a non-licensed Anime very loose adaptation of the “Great One’s” works… All for naught… They pulled the “Right” to make it at the last second… I’d show you a YouTube link but the Feminists, those modern women who seek to destroy men, keep complaining to get it taken down:-(
Felt sorry for the boss.
He’d also made homebrew games including for the nightmarish by today’s standards to program for “Atari 2600”. He had had some success with under the table sales of a bootleg “Exorcist” game where the priest shoots prayers and ducks bits of projectile vomit, but his adaptation of the movie “God-Emperor Caligula” which was an adult game to compete with others like “Custer’s Revenge” got delayed due to license/legal bans pending past when the console market glutted and crashed. The best version had a cool wind up yer fist for power, but he’d made a time bar, you know where a bar goes exponentially from slow to fast and you try to hit it as late as possible. But Bob G. wanted to use the “Paddle” to whip up fury with the wrist, since he was a “Warlords” addict and they got in a tiff that it’d wear out those devices too quickly but the joystick button (which was sh-t) lasted longer and Bob G. didn’t care that the kids’ couldn’t afford paddles like M&M’s since they (like ME) stole his mags from the stores. (well, we couldn’t BUY them, now could we!) It wasn’t easy to just re-program that thing, whoa boy, and that led to the tussle that delayed it until it wasn’t worth ordering the cartridges…
Pretty cool game, you are winding up the fist for a punch of fury where da sun don’t shine. Push too soon, it just squishes against the groom’s arse and he laughs at you. Push it in enough time he screams! Push it at the very last 1/100th a second, he screams so loud he could burst the speakers and his head explodes! Then they had an “Arena of Death” where you threw fruit at sprites that looked like people’s heads while a very unconvincing “Reaper” mechanism (Imagine the spiral from Yar’s Revenge magnified) came closer and closer. That was so-so… Tiberius swimming in the pool with his “Fishes” his 3 pixel dick trying to penetrate the smaller crude sprites was halfway amusing (and disturbingly erotic, even to a non-faggot) but Bob G. was afraid it’d get him arrested even as dumb and blocky as it was.
Again, I’d show you a YouTube link but the people who bought up the late Bob G’s business are too willing to sue. (2)
1. Actually, none of it is true! I make this up! Aahahahaa! Me veLy much humor!
2. This, I also made up:-)