all you do with going closed source is putting more money in the pockets of gateway / sky. if you truly believe this will make more than a handful of people support Nintendo by buying games.. then you are pretty naive as developers.
the people that really want to pirate will drop money for a sky/gw and the people that can't afford it won't pay for retail games either.
in an environment where there are no other piracy methods available i could agree with this decision but in an environment like its now with at least 2 other known piracy methods available.. all you do is limit the potential of your own project. you don't stop piracy , you stop all the potential of a cfw and make the pirates just pick another method of piracy.
You only help the real bad guys with this. just like real life politics about drugs being illegal. by making alcohol illegal, you don't stop people from drinking. those people will be forced to get their drinks elsewhere. Criminals will make alcohol and will earn tons of money with. and instead of tightly regulated alcohol that is considered safe you could end up with stuff that makes you could go blind because of a bad brewing process. the probation period train wreck is a perfect example of how bad of an idea such things are. such an idea would have only worked if noone knew how to brew,but just like in the 3DS scene , there are other methods available.
the people that really want to pirate will drop money for a sky/gw and the people that can't afford it won't pay for retail games either.
in an environment where there are no other piracy methods available i could agree with this decision but in an environment like its now with at least 2 other known piracy methods available.. all you do is limit the potential of your own project. you don't stop piracy , you stop all the potential of a cfw and make the pirates just pick another method of piracy.
You only help the real bad guys with this. just like real life politics about drugs being illegal. by making alcohol illegal, you don't stop people from drinking. those people will be forced to get their drinks elsewhere. Criminals will make alcohol and will earn tons of money with. and instead of tightly regulated alcohol that is considered safe you could end up with stuff that makes you could go blind because of a bad brewing process. the probation period train wreck is a perfect example of how bad of an idea such things are. such an idea would have only worked if noone knew how to brew,but just like in the 3DS scene , there are other methods available.