I haven't read the whole thread yet, so I don't know if this has been commented yet.
Not that I support this, but how exactly would this kill the 3DS's future? Looking back at this DS, it still received a ton of great games and it was a pirate hub.
Yeah cos the DS sold really poorly didnt it!!!?, despite having numerous flash cards
hangon.... DS was one of the best selling handhelds of all time and piracy was easy and rampant.... How did this damage DS?
it didn't hurt the ds, but it hurt the software sales in europe severely and it basically killed most small publishers around (or at least made them move to other platforms)
I know many people in real life who owned a ds, bought many games for it. as soon as they got there r4 cards, they stopped buying games altogether. and from what I could gather, that has been the norm all over europe.
less and less games got published. In the end, basically nintendo was the only one left who kept publishing games. (even though there where many games that publishers could've picked up - they didn't, because sales weren't worth it).
With the 3ds, those publishers were returning slowly. but now... with region lock, it will be even worse than before.