Although it was a given Ninty had to update their anti-piracy, we are now given confirmation from President Satoru Iwata himself.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/05/07/...do_7585210.html
Nintendo's president said Friday that anti-piracy measures will be beefed up in its planned handheld game device with 3-D technology in a move to guard against software theft.
The problem of piracy is serious, especially in Asia and Europe, and contributed to the recent drop in game software sales in Europe, Iwata said at a Tokyo hotel.
But he declined to go into details on the planned measures, saying such comments will merely give "hints" to the culprits.
Iwata was also concerned people were becoming more tolerant of piracy.
"We fear a kind of thinking is become widespread that paying for software is meaningless," he said. "We have a strong sense of crisis about this problem."
Read more here.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/05/07/...do_7585210.html
Nintendo's president said Friday that anti-piracy measures will be beefed up in its planned handheld game device with 3-D technology in a move to guard against software theft.
The problem of piracy is serious, especially in Asia and Europe, and contributed to the recent drop in game software sales in Europe, Iwata said at a Tokyo hotel.
But he declined to go into details on the planned measures, saying such comments will merely give "hints" to the culprits.
Iwata was also concerned people were becoming more tolerant of piracy.
"We fear a kind of thinking is become widespread that paying for software is meaningless," he said. "We have a strong sense of crisis about this problem."
Read more here.