True now they could have said "We made our firmware so that clones will brick your system". Tho it seem as if there were researching it for some time. s memory corruption could be the issue, not a complete nand wipe. Who has proof of such "kill code"?
Simply the facts that :
- All R4i started bricking the 3DS at the same time all of a sudden after weeks without problems. If it wasn't planned, then R4i would have bricked 3DS from the beginning.
- GW responded extremely fast to these problem about customer "they don't care about" and knew a whole lot about it.
You got a big nice post on the homepage explaining everything, why don't you go and read it?