Don't get me wrong, I updated after reading it would block my freeloader on GoNintendo. I updated because I figured eventually there'll be a game in the future that will require the update, so I might aswell. Plus I made sure that I can at least get £40 for my US copy.

There is also an advantage to NOT updating, not previously mentioned.

Ants can have neon blue theme discos.

Rather inevitable that it would happen eventually.

friggin update! i knew i should have come to the internet before obeying my wii's blue light
gotta ebay my brawl asap

because youre all nerds geeks and otaku

The Homebrew channel will still work as long as you installed it before you update.

There's a new game coming for the Wii?
I thought it all ended with Brawl.

You know what? This is absolute bs, its time to rally the troops again and give Nintendo some more crap.

Was it not Nintendo that themselves said those who imported where a minority on GC, and that they didn't mind us importing games. While everone has updated to the Wii, this sitiuation shouldn't have changed just because Nintendo are in the lead.

This kind of underhand cock blocking, without even so much a word of warning to gamers, shows how much their respect has gone us and how they continue to fail on customer service, because they are in the lead, they get all fucking draconian on us.

This rings echoes of those draconian SNES days all over again, and no wonder many developers don't like to work with them. I'd like Dtoid to question Nintendo about this because its very underhand and out of order. Their agents of spinning bs will probably say more insulting stuff to us no doubt.

As sad state of affairs indeed, but Nintendo have nothing to worry about, like I said, those who import games are a very small community of gamers in the grand scheme of things, especially Wii ones. Sorry, Superhobo, but I'm not buying that excuse, as if this was the case, why haven't Nintendo just said so officially? At least we'd know where we all stand

What Nintendo will probably do is, paint it as a move against piracy, as its easier to paint homebrewers and pirates as the same beast, than deal with them separately.

My advice to you all, don't update or buy another Wii.