You're also paying for the licensing. Doing a one-off like this, they probably don't get as good a deal as they would if they'd negotiated an entire line of Ghostbusters Lego.

Yeah, obviously putting out a $15 puzzle game in a few weeks signals the end of all new game designs from Nintendo. Because OBVIOUSLY.

For proof of this, just check out some of the recent teams that won the world championships... they almost always consist of some oddball pokes you wouldn't expect to see on a serious team (until after the tournament, when they get posted on Smogon and copied).

Qualifiers for national and world championships have been run over Wifi in the past and I'm sure Gamefreak plans on doing that more, so this cheating app is in fact a serious problem for the tournament scene.

More importantly, you can argue all you want about whether 80% or 90% or 95% of all players simply copy their…