i think they might have, then they can go full time to mobile and card games.

Yeah only on bad terms is DRM mentioned. Yeah I especially hate the keys and Steam DRM in general even though I have account for it.

Yeah especially for series like Ace Attorney where the likelihood of localization is 50/50 and you can’t play the games that don’t leave Japan unless you get a Japanese 3ds.

I really hope they’re working on that because no one is gonna want a region locked system 3 times in a row (Wii U and 3DS being region locked ). They’re gonna need it.

sounds more like expanding PokeBank to more platforms and allowing it to link with more games in different ways.

Its cool. Its a bit technical and most people really only talk about DRM when its highly intrusive so I can see how people would have only heard the term in the context of the whole always online problem. Most people really don’t give it a second thought about the less intrusive DRMs like copy protection and steams DRM. Although I always hated CD keys that you could only use a limited number of times.

And I would love for them to stop region locking their system. I’m not big into importing games but I LOVE a lot of the japan exclusive special edition systems.

Ah ok. I see, usually it was only applied to mean always online so I thought it just meant that context. Tbh I’m gonna be 20 years old this year and the first time I heard the term was a few years ago with the DRM debacle with Ubisoft.

I didn’t grow up with a wide spectrum of knowledge so I didn’t know it could be applied in other ways especially since every time somebody used the term it always referred to being always online. Ok I read it..I initially thought DRM only applied to software but now see it also entails hardware.

That’s why I wasn’t sure. Thanks for clearing that up. So I guess what I’m trying to say is instead of Nintendo going backwards I think they’ll be more open with their systems, especially since they expressed interest in removing region locking from future consoles. Who knows.

Nintendo would have a death wish.

“you can say every console in existence had DRM to counter piracy and counterfeit.”

Pretty much. Because that’s what DRM is. DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT. It might have been lacking on some of the really old systems, but any modern system has it. It is the protection measures put in place to protect their digital content from being hacked, pirated, copied, ect.

If people talk about DRM as ONLY being the systems that require you to stay online then they are misusing the term as that’s only one form of DRM and it’s refered to as “always on DRM”. Anything as simple as a DVD movie making it difficult for you to copy and burn your own versions would be DRM.

I have a question for you. How old are you? I’m not saying this to be mean but DRM isn’t a new term unlike the idea of requiring you to stay online which is a fairly new idea in video games (except for online mulitplayer games like WoW of course). I’m asking becuase if there is a new wave of gamers that don’t know exactly what DRM is then I should probably prepare better examples to explain exactly what it is.

“Or should we go over the definition to make sure we set this all straight?”

Lets do that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management

When you look at it that way, you can say every console in existence had DRM to counter piracy and counterfeit. Thing is..when people talk about DRM they talk about staying online and enforcing strict authoritative measures. thing is with DRM…its way of preventing piracy is to have a system stay always online. Consoles have had measures to stop piracy for years so now..technically you’re wrong also if we analyze it that way. Nobody broadly defines anti-piracy as DRM since it only has to do with staying online, not anything else. Or should we go over the definition to make sure we set this all straight?