Nintendo DSi Built To Reject R4 And Other ‘Homebrew’ Modules
Nintendo’s DSi may have been going down a storm in Japan but it seems it might have had an ulterior motive in updating its popular handheld. Part of the reason for the success of the DS is undoubtedly the popularity of the R4 module and its associated guises. This thing allows you to use homebrew content stored on a microSD chip but we’d imagine most people are using it for playing pirated games. Well, the new DSi apparently doesn’t work with any of these units, displaying an error message when one is plugged in. Nintendo will argue that the features of the new console cover most of the legal things you’d want to do with an R4 anyway, and its ultimate intention may be to faze out the original DS and push the ‘protected′ DSi onto consumers so they can start getting a bit more money from games sales again. The idea is fraught with problems however. First up we’d expect an R4 DSi to be developed and released within nanoseconds of the announcement becoming widespread, and second this may mean that people will just opt to stick with a DS Lite. Whatever happens, we reckon the Japanese giant will have to wait for the next generation handheld to arrive before it can stop the ‘R4 revolution’ in its tracks. - Paul Lester [Kotaku] Nintendo R4 DS
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