If You’re Going To Sue Someone At Least Have Your Facts Straight
Here’s a great lawsuit for you. Erik Estavillo is suing Nintendo over the fact that a firmware upgrade rendered the Homebrew Channel on his Wii useless. It’s against every major platforms policy to install non-licensed software onto a system and it’s mentioned every time there is an update to the firmware.
Estavillo claims that update 4.3 disabled his Homebrew Channel, which he used to unlock characters in Mario Kart Wii. Plaintiff states that the only way to unlock characters in Mario Kart Wii is to purchase Super Mario Galaxy, which will unlock a single character in the former title. “In essence, Nintendo is forcing customers to buy another game to unlock one character in a different game.”
He also has his facts about the unlockables in Mario Kart Wii wrong. There were two ways to unlock Rosalina in the game. The first actually did require a Super Mario Galaxy save file and all you had to do was win a series of Grand Prix cups. If you didn’t have the save file you needed to obtain a one star ranking in all Mirror Mode Grand Prix races.
I think this is a case that will not make it very far if it ever makes it into a court room.
Source: Game Politics.com
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