So much so dickheads that Acekard have already released the AK3 which allows NDS roms to be played on the 3DS already. Granted it is not going to help anyone with the 3DS specific games but it just shows how completely wrong you are in branding everyone a dickhead!!!

And here are some other interesting facts for you to chew over. In China, basically the second biggest economy in the world today, a handheld or console game system does not go down well with consumers if it is not crackable. The reason for this is simple. The average monthly wage in China is currently 996RMB, which is around 100 UK pounds and slightly less in US dollars.

The cost of legitimate games sold in China is about the same price as in other countries such as the US and UK, the developers take no consideration for the fact that people earn significantly less money in China and that the cost of living is much lower, so whilst food, cigarettes, alcohol and clothes are generally much much cheaper, for example a pack of 20 cigarettes cost 5.5RMB, thats about 55 UK pence compared to the 6 pounds plus mark in the UK which would be about 600RMB in China, games stay the same high price.

Therefore systems such as DS, PSP and Wii are very popular as once the extreme expense of the hardware is payed for, the gamer can get hold of games easily by either downloading the iso or rom and/or purchasing the pirate copies sold in all the shops. Yes, thats right, a high street games store, even IQUE which is a branch of the Nintendo corp sells pirate games and download pirate games for people, they even chip and mod your system in store!!!!

The hardware manufacturers such as Sony and Nintendo know very well that their annual turnover as far as consoles and handhelds are concerned is significantly made up by the sales in China and if those sales were to disappear that would take a major bite out of their profit margins. Therefore they also know very well that a system has to be palatable to the Chinese consumer, in other words.....hackable.

Recently a 3DS was stolen from Nintendo's manufacturing plant in China by one of the Chinese workers. It was in a non functioning condition by all accounts but nevertheless I don't think it takes much to work out exactly why this happened. It was stolen for the sole purpose of back engineering and the creation of either a mod chip, firmware hack and/or new compatible flash card.

I honestly don't think it will be very long after release at all until we see the system broken in whatever aforementioned form it takes and whilst Ninty will undoubtably periodically take steps to fix that with updates as they have with the Wii, they will always be worked around.

The simple fact of the matter is, China accounts for too large a share of the overall sales of the hardware and an uncrackable system that demands legitimate retail purchases of games will mean the 3DS is a no no for the majority of Chinese consumers with only the richest families purchasing and buying their games from Hong Kong.

Like or dislike it, agree or disagree it is plain and simple fact.

Quod Erat Demonstrandum

Peace