Has Nintendo Found a Way to Prevent Piracy on the 3DS?

The 3DS will be the latest handheld console created by Nintendo that will be set to release sometime March 2011. A few interesting bits on the latest hand-held console is its ability to produce a 3D effect without the use 3D glasses, is backwards compatible, and has Wi-Fi connectivity with a web browser.

However, I’m not here to give you all the latest information on 3DS. I’m here to talk about the very sensitive issue of piracy. As a lot of you may be aware, the Nintendo game consoles face a big issue on piracy through certain cards (R4 being one of them). To combat this, they have spent time trying to figure out a way to put a stop to it, and they believe that they have. CEO Satoru Iwata claims that their new sleep mode communications link - SpotPass - will not only perform automatic updates, but will remove any vulnerabilities that it discovers.

Will SpotPass pass the test in curbing piracy? I, for one, have my doubts. After all, the update is somewhat familiar to the PSP console where it connects to the internet and the user downloads firmware updates, a method that hackers can use to jailbreak the console itself, allowing users to download free games. And even if the Nintendo console itself is unable to be jailbroken, the companies still have game cards available, another feature that others can exploit (like with the R4) to find a hole in their program to make it so that blocks the updates.

[Source: IGN]