There isn’t one reason they could give that would ever justify this for the consumer. Absolutely unacceptable and anti consumer.
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The more Nintendo talks, the worst it gets.
Nintendo explain: " It's not free... we want your money... all of it"
I feel stupid but I have only ever bought devices that are open or able to be jailbroken. I don't get how sometimes when the jail walled garden bdsm relationship punishes it's people, they react with a gasp, as if they thought their locked hardware that isn't open to their owner that they "have" isn't made for exactly that purpose?
It's like yeah Janet. It's why you brought it. So you can play only their games and watch their movies and enjoy things that they decide the price and allowance of. You selected that? You chose to hire this device? Well I split mine open to use it for what it can do. No drm has ever succeeded. It's a grift protected by laziness and - as always, lawyers and lobbyists who have yet to grow up