Nintendo Can Fuck Off Too

Nintendo can join Epic's Mike Capps in kissing my ass. Destructoid.com report that Nintendo are using single-use activation codes to tie their largely pointless Wii Speak peripheral to a single console. The code allows you to download the channel software that the Speak uses - a driver if you like.

This is the latest incidence of publishers striking back at used game sales, which is an epidemic crushing profits and putting the entire industry at a near standstill. The situation is reminiscent of the film industry and its dreadful collapse after rental stores opened their collective doors and killed consumer motivation to purchase or travel to the theatre to watch movies.

I cannot believe that Nintendo lose a lot of money through second hand peripheral sales. To me this shows a complete lack of faith in consumer attachment to this device, they just want to make sure everyone has to buy it first-hand before they decide it's shit.