From how you talk, you must be making a modchip or involved in it. Sure, the hack is the enemy then. I WONDER then why "Venom" would try to call out f0f for not releasing something in their nfo file? "Ha ha, I made this, where are you with unlocking the system" kind of idea. I can see why that looks like a ploy. Of course, it is the moral thing to do; sell hardware to PIRATE only, without cultivating homebrew, and make money off of that. That has always been the spirit behind old school types who wanted freedom and hated restrictions on hardware;-)Thanks, that was a good read.
I think whoever is interested in piracy, should simply go back to good old modchips.
Hackers are tired of working for free and being constantly harassed by pirates, considering the valid point that there are other viable options out there to run homebrew, I can't really blame them.
With the comeback of modchips, people who really want to pirate games on their Wii U will have to take an extra step and buy a modchip ( I'm sure we'll see more then one model coming soon ).
That would be a healthy thing to do for the system IMO.
Modchip producers will have the incentive to produce the best/cheapest modchip yet, site like GBAtemp will flourish with reviews of the latest feature rich modchips ( like the good old times ), forums will grow with people interested in the subject and doing research on it, users will make a buck or two offering to mod sytems for the rest of us not skilled enough to do it, computer shops could have a backroom where unofficially console modding will happen, and Nintendo will finally sell more hardware too !
Everybody has a slice of the pie.That's the best motivation in the world.
Oh and that would prevent cheap noobs to freely run a hackmii installer on their machine and start to pirate.
If you really want piracy, you'll have to invest some money into it,and some people might just think it's too much trouble to be bothered with and will stick with cheap used games.
And I think by going that route, there will be growth in system and software sales as well, as piracy would be possible but not openly accessible to the masses do and will be kept at acceptable levels.
I said it before and I'm convinced that the main reason we didn't see a proper hack for the DSi or 3DS is also flashcart related.
If they hack it, people will want to be able to run stuff from the standard SD card slot, who would want to buy a flashcart for it ?
No flashcart sale=nobody makes money, no GBAtemp review, no mod chip stores,no affiliation,no interest.
It's a profit deal
Oh, and flashcarts...are piracy. Yes, it will make money for those doing mods, sure, did some of that for the 360 stuff as people were too afraid to solder. However, people are going to pirate regardless and the Wii U mode being unlocked is of course not going to help people trying to make money off of what is illegal/immoral/harmless (depends on who you ask and research). "I robbed a bank, but to hand out $100 bills I charge $10 per bill." I just saw some MORE research that shows the heaviest pirates (researched) spent like 300% more than "Clean" users. Music industry failed to support their $400,000 fines for grandma's PC download Britney Spear's latest song, lmfao. Study after study has shown that the activity, "on the whole", actually has not harmed sales. I've seen the arguments both ways, but no SPECIFIC evidence to show a system went south and died DUE to being unlocked.
Developers don't have a solid base, so why invest in Wii U? If 10 million units of Wii U exist, but 1% pirate, that is still a massive profit potential. I agree, if 90% pirate, game over. YET, no system, even the easiest to pirate, were ever proven/shown to have been that high. They were dying already (Dreamcast). A lot of people still buy systems, hardware, will buy some games, and if there is a huge base, I'd argue the rest is BS (Wii, 360, etc). Those were the TWO most hacked/pirated systems this last generation...and also the most successful. Nintendo will always have exclusives, and each system starts slowly, and the Wii U shown to not be off pace with 360/PS3 launches and THOSE WERE BETTER FINANCIAL TIMES). Once base of owners increase, then others see a profit margin. Without units sold, no reason to tweak some engine, or put effort to port a game.
WITHOUT work like Maxternal is trying to do on there 3 core thread, there won't be any Wii emulator or anything for Wii U mode. UNLESS somebody else unlocked Wii U by following hole Marcan exposed in his blog, we cannot get there. Instead of the arguments that are fun, but always seem to give BENEFIT to the modchip sellers only, maybe we can put efforts into helping Maxternal. Either way, the groundwork would be linux with 3 core support. ONLY other way I see is if Marcan releases or if OTHERS find the Wii U mode hack will any of this be possible.
