The ESRB would exist in some form or another even assuming a multi-plural legal order.

Somebody star this man this minute!!

Shady my ass.

Your tax dollars at work.....or lack thereof as the case may be.

I love that pic.

"Sure, he didn't get sued for a gajillion dollars, but Sony "won". Hotz did not."

.....why not make those into games? They're all rife for games-ing.

Yeah like pulling it is going to do squat.

AND IT BEGINS AGAIN!!!!!!

Why is anyone surprised by this? Part of Nintendo's hoped-for fanbase is eschewing their platform for something else which totally satisfies their desires, at the cost of revenue to nintendo.

I KNEW THAT BROCHURE WAS LYING TO ME!!!

Yeah that's pretty piss poor.

I'm amazed that this surprises anyone. While the internet has been slowly becoming a medium to spread information, US and international law has been slowly and surely in relation to "intellectual property" (which is a fairly absurd moniker for arbitrary state-approved choices of information) has constantly been…

Nope.

Any one know a release date?

....release date please?

...so what would that constitute for a girl exactly?

Good job not even addressing the main point, which is that nintendo chose to do something silly which on the face of it appears to provide no net utility.

What I'm curious about is why it needs to be anything more than it was on the old DS. The old one may have been a "little piece of plastic cheapness", but it worked damn well. I nary had an issue with it, so why should I want a more expensive version?

Given that it will take that long before a genuine worthwhile software library develops, that's the plan.