Gamasutra has two interesting pieces of news on Nintendo.
According to the first one, Nintendo is suing the distributors of the R4 Revolution cartridge in Japan which allows to run software on the DS that is not licensed by Nintendo. They say it’s because of piracy, but such cartridges are also vital to homebrew development.
The other one says that Nintendo has improved its profits to $992 million in the first quarter of 2008. So, piracy can’t be that, can it?
Update: I just want to stress that I don’t support, do or glorify piracy in any way. It’s just that the DS wouldn’t be what it is without homebrew.
Update 2: According to this blog post, many sites selling the R4 are already down because they’re afraid of legal threats from Nintendo.
Update 3: Gizmondo reports:
The rush in demand [of R4s] has been amazing. These devices always sell well. But this weekend should be staggering, don’t you think?
Changed “producers” to “distributors” as I was obviously mistaken there.