Judge rules Nintendo ILLEGALLY protects systems', should be like WINDOWS!
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We have just heard that Nintendo has today lost a major court case against the Divineo group in the main court of Paris. Nintendo originally took the group to court over DS flash carts, however the judge today has ruled against Nintendo and suggested that they are purposely locking out developers from their consoles and things should be more like Windows where ANYONE can develop any application if they wish to.
The ramifications of this are huge, as it indicates that flash carts are actually legal. Moroever, it could have bigger implications for developers and the like becauseNintendo is deemed to be 'illegally' protecting their system by locking users out. Therefore, developers should not actually require separate development kits and should just be able to develop applications as they wish on retail versions of Nintendo's consoles.
And on a final note, this truly was a HUGE court case, up in the main court of Paris France and seems likely to be relevant to the whole of Europe.
Essentially, if people have to 'hack' the system and use Flash Carts to do develop, then it's all fine because Nintendo has left them with little other choice and the system should not be protected in such a restrictive way.
I stole this news from another site, but it's really big! That means I could develop a new game for the Wii, and it wouldn't have to have to be Nintendo Certified! You wouldn't have to pay Nintendo ANYTHING for developing and selling a game that works on their system! This will help the price of games come WAY down and ALOT more smaller/independent companies develop games! This is crazy good news!