I keep seeing posts and stuff about people going berserk over the Switch hacking and how it'll cause the Switch to die and such. So I'm curious what's the rough percentage of total people who hack their 3DS, and the rough percentage of people who hack/want to hack the Switch? From being a member on GBATemp it seems like a high number but I'm only looking at just the people on here and not the total people who have the consoles.

 

I have 3 guidelines to when I hack my systems
1: System is dead and no longer getting support. This means no matter what I do, the market is already over for the system and thus I won't be effecting the company.
2: System completely flopped. There's not much I can to help save the system and in most cases the system falls under the first.
3: System was complete success and it's several years down the road. Basically I end up being 1% of the market. Although in those cases I aim to hack for things like trying to help the homebrew community more than anything else and or backing up my own games because I hate trying to carry around more than one game at a time.

The Switch is too early to tell, but most likely will end up in 3.

 

I know hacking has little to no impact on a console's success, so I hack as early as possible. At this point, I can't really think of a console Ive purchased without the intentions of hacking. If console hacks weren't possible I'd just be a pc gamer.

 

I just wanted smash mods on my 3ds so I never took any of that into consideration o.o I suppose those are good guidlines for trying not to effect it with piracy...

 

When will stupid topics about hacking, like this one, stop?

 

If emulators exist I'm there!
I thought hacking made consoles more successful to be honest. Having hacks makes it more appealing to buy.
Though I'm a fan of rom hacks, I like seeing how people manage to alter a game.... for better or worst. Usually someone out there who feel the game isn't hard enough and wanna make it completely a challenged they feel nintendo is too afraid to give someone. Well let me say Nintendo was never afraid to give players a challenge. Super mario lost levels have poison mushrooms, windy weather effects, spring that launch you off screen for 10 seconds and into pits, and warp zones that send you back levels you completed. (Yes I MEAN SUPER MARIO BROS 2 ON FAMICOM DISK SYSTEM WITH NO SAVE OPTION) Zelda 2 adventure of link is brutally hard, and zelda 1 had a second quest much harder, and lets not forget ocarina of time master quest.

Then some find the game too hard and want to make it accessible without feeling like is too easy.

Okay i got off track but basically I like mods for various reasons. All the sonic rom hacks with the Chiptune coded music from other games or just new composed ones is cool, enhanced graphics people thought sega genesis wasn't capable of, how people sure work within system limitations to make it look presentable and playable. That is what i like seeing, putting someone skill and (console hardware capabilities) to the test. MAXIMUM POWER!

Piracy is not the reason why i want hacks, is emulators and rom hacks. Maybe if games was good and worth paying $60 for instead of releasing incomplete buggy broken unplayable.... boring, total flawed and clearly mislead marketed overhyped games, there would be "LESS" (not none, but less) of that piracy going on. Then again, people like things when is free!

 

I bought Tekken Tag Tournament 2 for wii u a month ago, yes I know I can get it for free. But I bought it.
I bought Shovel Knight on switch and I already had it on wii u (PAID), Yes I know I can get it for free.
keptical
Then again I usually don't buy full price games, cause lately video game industry got me skeptical to trust $60 game is worth it.

 

The only problem I have with hacking is that when it gathers too much attention (like spawn wave on YouTube reporting in on every little bit of detail he can, even the recent kernel dump), it'll make Nintendo act on it a lot harder because more people will know about it. Too much publicity = bad.

Granted, I personally think its up to the user what they do. I would be satisfied with just emulators and maybe save editing.

 

Watched like 15 seconds of that video before I had to close it. Full access? No. Dumped kernel doesn't give you full access just like that. There's more that has to be done to get full access, even user land. Could at least do fact checking before proclaiming the end of the world.

 

btw do you realize the stuff in your sig no one can see since they changed the limits even in spoiler tags?