Well, when you buy a product (at least in the US where it is completely legal to screw customers over since we have little consumer protection laws) the hardware itself is yours to own to an extent
[no reverse engineering it and selling a clone,etc] and the software is simply licensed to you. this means that Nintendo has every legal right to make a console stop working software wise when hacks are detected.
Insomniac did this with the Anti-Piracy checks on Spyro 3 (Spyro 2 PAL had it also) and the actual legit discs would not work and error out on a modded PS1. nobody sued Insomniac for not allowing them to play a game they paid money for because their console was modded.
Nintendo could easily make the Wii U one day throw an error message on boot that unauthorized modifications were detected and to shutdown after. Since this would not happen to a console under normal use conditions, Nintendo would be in their legal right to do so.
[no reverse engineering it and selling a clone,etc] and the software is simply licensed to you. this means that Nintendo has every legal right to make a console stop working software wise when hacks are detected.
Insomniac did this with the Anti-Piracy checks on Spyro 3 (Spyro 2 PAL had it also) and the actual legit discs would not work and error out on a modded PS1. nobody sued Insomniac for not allowing them to play a game they paid money for because their console was modded.
Nintendo could easily make the Wii U one day throw an error message on boot that unauthorized modifications were detected and to shutdown after. Since this would not happen to a console under normal use conditions, Nintendo would be in their legal right to do so.