yuyuyup said:
How does a system getting hacked correlate with shovelware being produced ? ? ? ? No explanation has been offered
kk, I'll explain it. When a system is hacked, people begin to pirate. As the hack spreads, many people begin to pirate completely instead of buying games. Many will still buy games they know they want, but most are either first party, or very well known third party games. This leads to smaller third party developers getting shafted, as even if their games are good, a lot of the time sales will tank on their game due to people thinking it isn't good enough to buy for one reason or another. Sometimes it is just the name, sometimes it's just people thinking they shouldn't have to spend money on their games anymore. Many of the smaller third party developers drop off or only make a game for the system once or twice a year at the most instead of really putting forth an effort to get games out there.
You end up with a very small group of developers left after a certain amount of time. The DS and 3DS just happen to be very family oriented consoles. This means that games made for young kids will be produced anyways. I will say this much: the hacks don't truly lead to the shovelware. Rather, they lead to the decline of non-shovelware, making the kid games far more prominent in all places.
It's less shovelware production and more non-shovelware lack of production.