Wii U hacked?

[Deleted_171835]

;O; Seems we can't have a thread where people start their posts off with a gif, and then do a lame yet true generalization of GBAtemp we've heard countless times yet people still act surprised. We probably have about three of your posts by other members somewhere in these threads.

That's my specialty.

 

[WiiUBricker]

I downloaded a game twice. I would not have bought it twice yet alone once.

End proof

This isn't proof at all.

 

[Foxi4]

Pondering about whether or not people would buy more video games if piracy didn't exist is pretty pointless since piracy existed before video games and your assumptions about its influence on video games are just that - assumptions. People copied various media for centuries, it's not a new invention that plagues us all of a sudden.

Just throwing that thought here.

 

[Qtis]

Although this is going a bit off topic, but I'll throw it out still: What about legacy titles and piracy on them? Can you see new Gamecube games being sold? If you can, how many of the entire library and how many are indeed new versus second hand?

 

[WiiUBricker]

fail0verflow failed to hack the DSi and 3DS. You expect them to hack the WiiU?

 

[SifJar]

Although this is going a bit off topic, but I'll throw it out still: What about legacy titles and piracy on them? Can you see new Gamecube games being sold? If you can, how many of the entire library and how many are indeed new versus second hand?

It doesn't matter if it's still being sold or not; you still have no right to own it if you have not purchased it (assuming you didn't obtain it through some promotion or competition etc.). If it can't be purchased any more, that's too bad; you've missed your chance.

Whether it's new or second hand is also irrelevant; a second hand sale passes the right to own whatever is being sold from the first owner to the second.

fail0verflow failed to hack the DSi and 3DS. You expect them to hack the WiiU?

"failed" implies that they tried. I have seen no evidence of such.

 

[Qtis]

fail0verflow failed to hack the DSi and 3DS. You expect them to hack the WiiU?

Different devices, different internals. Why not?

fail0ver did manage to hack the PS3 back in the days when no one had managed to get to that point. DSi hacking didn't have that much of merit for usefulness, thus a lack of interest. The 3DS is another thing, but we will see.

 

[Qtis]

It doesn't matter if it's still being sold or not; you still have no right to own it if you have not purchased it (assuming you didn't obtain it through some promotion or competition etc.). If it can't be purchased any more, that's too bad; you've missed your chance.

Whether it's new or second hand is also irrelevant; a second hand sale passes the right to own whatever is being sold from the first owner to the second.

Except always it's not possible to transfer licenses automatically IIRC. Second hand trading is just as bad or even worse for the devs since they actually do lose a real sale there. Stores like Gamestop take the profit (with quite a big margin).

 

[WiiUBricker]

fail0ver did manage to hack the PS3 back in the days when no one had managed to get to that point.

Yeah, because nobody attempted it besides GeoHot because there was no point in hacking it when you already could run your own code with PS3 Linux. Only after Sony removed Linux there were serious attempts of hacking it which resulted in fail0verflow figuring out, that the security of the PS3 was very bad. So don't be fooled so easily by this.

 

[Qtis]

Yeah, because nobody attempted it besides GeoHot because there was no point in hacking it when you could run your own code with PS3 Linux. Only after Sony removed Linux there were serious attempts of hacking it which resulted in fail0verflow figuring out, that the security of the PS3 was very bad.

The PS3 Linux was craptastically limited. Linux was nice and all, but it wasn't as capable as the full hack. There were entire hardware features unavailable due to the nature of PS3 Linux

 

[WiiUBricker]

The PS3 Linux was craptastically limited. Linux was nice and all, but it wasn't as capable as the full hack. There were entire hardware features unavailable due to the nature of PS3 Linux

Doesn't matter, hackers aren't interested in more than just running their own code.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Playstation 3? What are you doing here? This is a Wii U thread. Shoo PS3! Shoo! Get outta here!

Oh, where were we?

 

[WiiUBricker]

Playstation 3? What are you doing here? This is a Wii U thread. Shoo PS3! Shoo! Get outta here!

Oh, where were we?

Not funny at all. You got weak

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Not funny at all. You got weak

It wasn't meant to be funny, just that we should stop talking about the PS3 in a Wii U thread.

 

[WiiUBricker]

It wasn't meant to be funny, just that we should stop talking about the PS3 in a Wii U thread.

Actually it's a user submitted news regarding the WiiU & fail0verflow. The PS3 is related to fail0verflow, hence why PS3 talk is perfectly fine here as long it only relates to fail0verflow hacking it.

 

[Yoshimashin]

Children! Please...

I don't have much faith in Nintendo security so if they did manage to hack it I wouldn't be shocked in the least.

 

[the_randomizer]

It doesn't matter if it's still being sold or not; you still have no right to own it if you have not purchased it (assuming you didn't obtain it through some promotion or competition etc.). If it can't be purchased any more, that's too bad; you've missed your chance.

Whether it's new or second hand is also irrelevant; a second hand sale passes the right to own whatever is being sold from the first owner to the second.

And yet Nintendo still doesn't get any profit from second-hand sales. Pretty sure some companies out there lump second-hand sales in the same pile as piracy.

 

[ComeTurismO]

Next thing you know, when it is fully hacked, and many people have a hacked Wii U:

Reggie: I.. Resign.

 

[the_randomizer]

If I was going to pirate games at all, I'd much rather do to with Gamecube games. The Wii U was just released, I'd rather have Nintendo get revenue from their newer games.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

And yet Nintendo still doesn't get any profit from second-hand sales. Pretty sure some companies out there lump second-hand sales in the same pile as piracy.

A lot of them consider second hand sales worse than piracy since it's A) easier to do, B) more widely available, and C) legal.