As everyone should know nintendo released their new hand held console the 3ds vaguely recently. Something that i only just heard about was that nintendo can do something to your 3ds known as bricking, though im not sure if this is necessarily true. Nintendo claims it has the power to brick your 3ds if it thinks that you have been hacking or using third party modifications and flash carts. None of us here at the nintendo blog are haxors, but this news is a little alarming. What would happen is that when you update your 3ds over the internet, the 3ds would become completely unresponsive. This cannot be fixed, even by nintendo themselves. I guess that if nintendo could fix it then hackers could too. If your 3ds is bricked then it will become completely useless and you will have to buy a new one. The internet says that it is just a bluff because no one has been bricked yet, but it would just assume that nintendo is playing it smart and letting everyone get comfortable before it does what it plans to do. It is still hard to determine whether or not bricking is legal, nintendo only have legal power over services not goods, so they could cut your 3ds off from the internet with no legal ramifications, but would destroying your device be something that they could be sued over? No one really knows what will happen yet, but time will tell.
Tefle
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