Crossroads

I hope that most of the Nintendo board room is in a quandary right now over the homebrew situation on the Wii. Their brazen disinterest in network services and gaming in the last generation has cost them dear in this one, with the Wii being the most insecure and exposed system in gaming history. Yet, where Nintendo are failing to tackle the real threat to their business - widespread game piracy - they are doing more than a good job of disabling what I would call reasonable use of the system as a homebrew platform. What they have to say, and indeed decide to do, in response to the fan translation release of Fatal Frame IV (Project Zero in Europe) will speak volumes about their intentions towards the current game market, and the attitude towards their own platform.