http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/(That way, I didn't need an ipod) :)]]>Jul 29th 2008 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 30th 2008 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 30th 2008 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/
Nintendo was a little late on this one but my guess is they are trying to scare these companies into stopping (legal costs and possible damages) or they are really trying to make a case on something that is pretty thin. ]]>Jul 29th 2008 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/ Nintendo was a little late on this one [...]

Late??? That's one heck of underestimation.

After all the press M3/R4/etc got, after all naive questions from press about Nintendo providing similar solution with downloadable games and content for DS, all they did was to release 1+ year later the half-arsed DS Vision(?) which isn't even half of what M3/R4/etc provide (and Jap only at the moment).

They are frigging TOO DAMM late.

P.S. R4DS hits 900K entries on Google, BTW. No stopping now, baby.]]>Jul 29th 2008 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/
Claims to the contrary are completely ridiculous. Even if you aren't using it for piracy right now, you will. It is so ridiculously easy to pirate DS games that you will be tempted to do it and eventually succumb to it. You'll convince yourself that you're just "trying the game out", or some other excuse, but you're pirating a game. End of story.

I should know this. I have an M3 DS Simply. I've stopped using it and I'm better for it.]]>Aug 4th 2008 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/
Fucking Nintendo.]]>Jul 29th 2008 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/
I use it for music software. It's good fun.]]>Jul 29th 2008 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.11457)]]>Jul 29th 2008 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/
They're worth every dollar ;)]]>Jul 30th 2008 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/
Just because these games don't exude the graphical prowess that their console bound brethren do, doesn't mean they don't take a lot of work to make, and doesn't mean you should enjoy them any less. ]]>Jul 29th 2008 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/
Actually, the real questions are: what expertise do you have in the game design industry to make judgment calls on the price of games? Do you actually know how much money goes into making one? How that money is distributed between the publisher, developer, licensee, distributor, etc? ]]>Jul 29th 2008 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/
Travis, some of the $35 games are respectable achievements for a handheld (certainly not Trauma Center, though). And I agree that for some of those games, I'm totally fine paying the money. But I'm not alleging that the cream-of-the-crop isn't "worth" $30-$35 to a gamer. Nor am I alleging that "lack of technological prowess" and "fun" are mutually exclusive. I'm alleging that:
a) it's (probably) highway robbery in terms of margin;
b) it's a diluted market whereby 90% of DS games aren't worth $5 (
Seriously, how many cookie-cutter Phoenix Wright / Pokemon / RPG ports / bad sports ports / Brain games / Nickelodeon crap do we have to sift through to find good games?); and
c) although it could be fun, if a game is not a technologically impressive game, it was not difficult, nor expensive, to develop, especially if it is just a DS incarnation of an old game.

I think these are reasonable points. Keep in mind that I AM a DS user and a Nintendo lifer who thoroughly enjoys the top 10% of DS games. But I refuse to sympathize with Nintendo on this issue.]]>Jul 29th 2008 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/
I'm pretty sure CycloDS is considered separate from R4, and from what this article just said now, this is only effective in japan, whereas i had thought CycloDS was US based (or at least some English speaking area)]]>Jul 29th 2008 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 30th 2008 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUST8746920080729

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]]>Jul 29th 2008 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Unless you're being sarcastic..]]>Jul 29th 2008 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/
that says 1GB, which might be confused to look like 16B, but it still doesn't look like 16GB unless you're getting double vision.

It's okay okay, it happens to to a lot of people who have been on the computer a a little too long.]]>Jul 29th 2008 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/
got 3 of them for xmas presents last year.

w00t]]>Jul 29th 2008 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/
So, they probably think they sold enough already.]]>Jul 29th 2008 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/
I just saw in the comments people talking about games being $15, $20 $30 - $40, I nearly laughed! ]]>Jul 29th 2008 7:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 29th 2008 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/
Genius. ]]>Jul 29th 2008 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/
and yes, R4 is the best.]]>Jul 30th 2008 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/nintendo-files-suit-against-five-ds-hacking-firms/Jul 30th 2008 11:26PM