ProtoKnux said:Oceanborn, this could be associated to the 360. Sure, Nintendo hasn't done anything until now besides putting the typical DSi firmware update that blocks flashcards (but not really, as we can see) but these things take time. I agree that this specific year they would have a hard time if they couldn't sell games to their customers because they stopped their services for them, but piracy would cause them the same problem. So I say, regardless of seeing this as a "dick move" that will cause them losses, it could still happen and it happened multiple times through different platforms. The device has been advertised with these features indeed, but so were other consoles advertised with online features that were stopped by console bans.
Let's suppose Nintendo does something similar to the DSi or the Wii. Updates were needed for online services outside of games, such as the virtual console, wiiware or dsiware. Of course you could upgrade your flashcart firmware so you can run it on these new updates, but how frequently will it happen now? How much time would someone have to wait after any official update to get them working? If they released a fair amount of early demos and 3D classics, it would be a problem. Plus we wouldn't probably have release dates for firmware updates, and we would have to stop using things like streetpass just to prevent that data from being downloaded into our beloved consoles. Regardless of how legal it is or not, there's still a possibility they could automatically update the whole thing without a confirmation.
I'd rather be pessimistic about this and wait for a month than jump in because most assumptions fall into "they won't do that because it wouldn't be beneficial for them".
the console doesn't auto update not from street pass nor from online. what's even more when the battery was depleted on mine, it returned to the previous firmware before I had the video update and all the history on any games played was gone, playing the game didn't bring the hours i spent in the games either and my friend code was changed and my mii gone so basicly it returned to when i bought it mode.