I prefer to look at it like Nintendo just doesn't give half a crap. Why spend thousands of dollars having your coders make the system hack-proof when its pretty much inevitable?
Only reason the PS3 hasn't been hacked is BD-R burners are still cost prohibitive.
That's is the ability of PS3. Burning PS3 BD are cost-probitive, laptop drives are too small/expensive to be efficient to hold the 50GB disks, and noone can use MemoryStick for that either...
Nintendo has no experience in the security side of consoles. All the previous consoles were inflexible toys. The Wii is the first true general purpose, exploitable hardware which is suitable for homebrew. Hence it WILL be hacked to death.
They WILL have to learn the hardway like MS with the XBox, and Sony with the PS2 and PSP.
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"We can't tell if this is incompetence or benevolence on Nintendo's part"
Really, you can't? Only Apple or Nintendo would ever get a line like that. Any other company would be some evil and undoubtedly incompetent.
I prefer to look at it like Nintendo just doesn't give half a crap. Why spend thousands of dollars having your coders make the system hack-proof when its pretty much inevitable?
Only reason the PS3 hasn't been hacked is BD-R burners are still cost prohibitive.
That's is the ability of PS3. Burning PS3 BD are cost-probitive, laptop drives are too small/expensive to be efficient to hold the 50GB disks, and noone can use MemoryStick for that either...
Is it just me, or are the anti-Apple fanboys starting to get more annoying than the Apple fanboys?
It's just the fanboys in general that are annoying.
Nintendo has no experience in the security side of consoles. All the previous consoles were inflexible toys. The Wii is the first true general purpose, exploitable hardware which is suitable for homebrew. Hence it WILL be hacked to death.
They WILL have to learn the hardway like MS with the XBox, and Sony with the PS2 and PSP.
@ Kurian,
So the DS is what? Unhackable? Your so wrong...
Anyone ever consider that they really don't care?
Doesn't have to be incompetence when you already bought the system and paid them money.