Nintendo: "Heyday of piracy" may be over
3DS is "one of our best pieces of equipment ever" for copy-protection
Nintendo's UK bosses have been talking up the copy protection in the impending 3DS handheld, claiming that the piracy troubles of the DS era may be behind it.
The firm's marketing manager James Honeywell told CVG that "There's definitely a step change coming and you see it in various countries around the world.
"People are aware that video games, music and movies make massive contributions to the economies of countries. They need to make sure they start protecting those things. I think perhaps there's been a 'heyday of piracy' and we've now seen a lot of rules come in to stop it."
Added general manager David Yarnton, "We can't divulge any technical details on that but needless to say this is probably one of our best pieces of equipment in that respect.
"There are a lot of things we've learnt over time to try and improve the security and protection - not only of our IP but of our third-party publishers' IP as well."
But i just hoping for somthing that stop the region lock.
I know THQ made a statement a few months back that the anti-piracy measures of the 3DS were incredibly complex and they believe it would significantly reduce piracy on the system. I guess we'll see if that holds true and if it's like ringing a dinner bell for challenge seeking hackers.
Edited 1 times. Last edit by Haven Tso on 26th January 2011 8:19pm
But seriously you may as well have just hired some professional hackers. I just hope this won't kill the 3DS like it did for the PSP, at least in software sales. Although the 3DS's casual audience will probably save it.
oh and i give it less than two months before it' entire catalog is available to hackers.
Yeah, well leave that arm in there for a whole minute, guys.
Memo: Stop teasing the lions with your meat suit, Nintendo - you're only asking for nonsense to rain down on you like, er... rain.
Feh, I got nothin'...
DVD encryption was broken to allow ONE guy to play DVDs on Linux. As they say, road to hell is paved with good intent (pardon my bad english)
3DS games are blank cartridges except with an encryption key. Internet access is required. All games stream from a Nintendo server while playing. Or the whole thing is ala OnLive...
I think game companies wet their pants at the possibility of doing this kind of thing. If you buy simply an encryption key to stream a game from a server, you don't actually OWN anything.... its the dream of them only selling you a license. You can't pirate, sell, lend, rent what you don't physically or digitally have in any form.
We can only hope that like the speed vs storage curve of optical/hard/SSD drives, internet streaming will never catch up to the demands of increased resolution and display sizes.
Then wield the banhammer on them :)