Well, since you two seem to be so connected with them, here's a question for ya to give them and get a strait answer: Why?
I'll bet you two (neoice, and AnTin) can't even give me an answer to that.
How do I know? Because it's simple entrepreneurship. All business has one primary goal: to make money.
Releasing this "bad" firmware has the opposite effect of making money.
New users looking to buy will simply buy another brand because who knows who is selling real or who is selling fakes!
Old users will just simply NOT upgrade because well, how can anyone be 100% sure their's is 100% real? I know probably a few of you KNOW you have real ones but what about the hundreds of people who are just less then 99% sure? Would you want to risk updating if you can't be 100% sure and have no one to turn to if your DS dies?
oh and neoice, your statement "No where in the chinese announcement does it say that the firmware will cause the bricking of the R4," basically backs up what I was saying. If you read my post again, I said people were saying the announcement meant to say it will kill R4's, not DS'es but you AND me both agree that the announcement said it will kill DSes, not R4...
So in effect, killing DS machines will be bad business as well. Less machines will = less people buying flash carts overall, and people who will fix or get a new DS will just NOT risk buying another R4! Again, negative business.
So why are they doing it?
If anyone can CLEARLY answer that without "maybe" or "I think," you'll earn everyone's respect on here... All I want to hear is: "They said......" and it should explain how it will give them more business, not less.
I'll bet you two (neoice, and AnTin) can't even give me an answer to that.
How do I know? Because it's simple entrepreneurship. All business has one primary goal: to make money.
Releasing this "bad" firmware has the opposite effect of making money.
New users looking to buy will simply buy another brand because who knows who is selling real or who is selling fakes!
Old users will just simply NOT upgrade because well, how can anyone be 100% sure their's is 100% real? I know probably a few of you KNOW you have real ones but what about the hundreds of people who are just less then 99% sure? Would you want to risk updating if you can't be 100% sure and have no one to turn to if your DS dies?
oh and neoice, your statement "No where in the chinese announcement does it say that the firmware will cause the bricking of the R4," basically backs up what I was saying. If you read my post again, I said people were saying the announcement meant to say it will kill R4's, not DS'es but you AND me both agree that the announcement said it will kill DSes, not R4...
So in effect, killing DS machines will be bad business as well. Less machines will = less people buying flash carts overall, and people who will fix or get a new DS will just NOT risk buying another R4! Again, negative business.
So why are they doing it?
If anyone can CLEARLY answer that without "maybe" or "I think," you'll earn everyone's respect on here... All I want to hear is: "They said......" and it should explain how it will give them more business, not less.