Comments on: Nintendo Wii to hackers: ‘Go Play!’ http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15190 p2pnet.net offers not-your-lamescream news on movies music digital media P2P peer-to-peer TV television file sharing freedom of speech open source product news Wifi mobiles company Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:19:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Monkey D. Luffy http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15190#comment-354761 Monkey D. Luffy Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:11:28 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15190#comment-354761 I disagree. Nintendo could very easily regulate commercially sold games, while allowing people to make and distribute homebrew games for free. This is what already goes on with pc games. I disagree. Nintendo could very easily regulate commercially sold games, while allowing people to make and distribute homebrew games for free. This is what already goes on with pc games.

]]> By: JPV711 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15190#comment-353351 JPV711 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:32:00 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15190#comment-353351 Yep, can't agree with Eric more. The Nintendo Seal of Quality was a great idea on Nintendo's part. Here's more reading. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash_of_1983 Yep, can’t agree with Eric more. The Nintendo Seal of Quality was a great idea on Nintendo’s part. Here’s more reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash_of_1983

]]> By: Eric http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15190#comment-353263 Eric Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:03:04 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15190#comment-353263 If Nintendo said "here's the console and its hardware schematics", it would be doing the same thing as Atari did in 1977 with the 2600. Six years later the market crashed because there were dozens of companies making crap simply because they saw profit in reverse-engineering games that they were lousy at programming. The crap didn't make the consumer be more sensible in its game-buying choice; it simply turned them away from buying video games for good! The only reason we have video games on consoles today is because Nintendo had a closed system and made sure the games made for it were top notch with their licensing agreements. They not only managed to get people to play video games again, but they even got stores to carry them! If Nintendo said “here’s the console and its hardware schematics”, it would be doing the same thing as Atari did in 1977 with the 2600. Six years later the market crashed because there were dozens of companies making crap simply because they saw profit in reverse-engineering games that they were lousy at programming.

The crap didn’t make the consumer be more sensible in its game-buying choice; it simply turned them away from buying video games for good!

The only reason we have video games on consoles today is because Nintendo had a closed system and made sure the games made for it were top notch with their licensing agreements. They not only managed to get people to play video games again, but they even got stores to carry them!

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