I'm glad I got my Wii a couple of months ago instead of now
I'm looking forward to seeing some more developments.

 

Great job, Ninty! Now you need to work on shutting down the Wii consoles that are already using soft mods. They've had it too good for too long.

 

Makes me glad I got my wii for Christmas, still have not modded it yet, but at least its moddable. however I think another exploit will be found in time

 

I also have to say good job nintendo!

 

Do you think so? It prevents homebrew from being loaded. How many people outside of members of this site know that homebrew can be installed on Wii prior to the purchase? I am going to say 99%.
So them being unaware of a feature that was not part of the intended line of programs for the Wii is really effecting No sales. Except the people who have homebrew running and need a replacement because the Wii got damaged.

Now that 1% of new people that KNOW about homebrew on the Wii are most likely going to get the Wii for the ability to play backups (not saying they will own the original in the first place). I mean if you talk to most people and say:
Hey if I rig up yoiur Wii, you can play Wii-Tac-Toe and Wii Space Invaders made by people like us. Also use SD Explorer to look at the contents of your SD Card.
...people are like "Huh, what? SD card... "
*Not much of a selling/buying point

If you say:
Hey I can rig up your Wii to play backups that you can download from the internet. Just download them from {insert site name} and bingo...you got game X
...people are more likely to be "No Sh!t..really? that is cool"
*More of a selling/buying point

So preventing homebrew is actually saving money NIN money in the long run.

 

you are correct - that was a typo (if you look at my intent)... I meant to say
"How many people outside of members of this site are unaware that homebrew can be installed on Wii prior to the purchase? I am going to say 99%."

So them being unaware of a feature that was not part of the intended line of programs for the Wii is really effecting No sales. Except the people who have homebrew running and need a replacement because the Wii got damaged.

blah blah blah

People that come to this site or any site looking for HOW DO I SOFTMOD already in the know. Wii does not include in the manuals that SOFTMODs and MOD CHIPS enhance the Wii playability.
If homebrew was something they knew for a fact was generating sales, why would they start creating this type of update to prevent that?
Ok - shooting themselves in the foot for NOT realizing some feature is missing or expandability for the future is one thing. Preventing homebrew, which one of the key features is playing backups, from loading is another thing.
If this update they made ruins some older games - that is a problem. If it prevents, lets say backup copies of Madworld playing on the newer machines, people will buy the game. Revenue for NIN - they sold the machines and sold some games. Win for NIN.

Seriously - homebrew channel enables homebrew applications.
Now you have to admit the biggest homebrew application/feature is ability to play backups.
*I know some countries allow backups of media that you purchased and .....
But do you honestly believe that people who are aware of the homebrew/softmod are going to go thru this routine just to setup "Turbo Grafx emualtor", "Rebooter", "Mii Extractor", "Alarmi", "MyLittleBall", "Wii Quizz" or "Red Square"?

If people really are looking for those games or feature above and do not play backups then....
the new update only effects the sales generated from these games. Since there is no marketing done for these, it is word of mouth so there is no effort by Nintendo to sell these.

I dont mean to show the math but

Unmodded Wii...
1 system $250...5 games @ $40 =200
so $450 to NIN .. and potential of buying another game

Modded Wii
1 system $250... 20 games @ $0
$250 to nin and possibility of no more income generated from these

Chances are people with the unmodded wii will want to go buy more games
Modded wii is really based on
1% of 49.96 million sold - or ~500,000 people
and those 500,000 that are only looking to use a home application and not for play unpurchased backups is pretty unlikely.

 

Good...at least they're putting some effort out now. But it's not affecting those who have older consoles, like myself. However, I do run only legal homebrew software...I'm strongly against Wii piracy.

 

Calm down dude you can still put a mod chip on it.

Kids these days are afraid of soldering irons I swear.