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Why Do MP3’s Encourage Piracy while AAC Is The Salvation on the Nintendo DSi?

What is in the water at Nintendo UK? There’s a nice interview with David Yarnton in the Times today, talking about the soon to be launched in the UK Nintendo DSi. It’s an evolution of the existing DS Lite, with basic cameras, SD Card support and an on-device store.

Are they talking on the iPhone? Of course they are. But sometimes I wonder just what they think pirates are up to. First of all they’re proud that the DSi will not recognise the R4 Card (which is used to run homebrew code and .nds downloaded games). That protection should last about… ooh… 27 minutes.With updateable firmware Yarnton reckons they can keep one step ahead at all times.

Like that worked on the PSP.

But even more wacky is the music support. With SD card support, a small form factor, and a regular headphone socket, this could be a great little music player. But Nintendo don’t want you to even think about playing pirate music on the DSi. Let me quote directly:

As for music, if we allowed MP3 playback, a lot of those files may be pirated. We support AAC, which is the format used by Apple and iTunes.

David Yarnton, interviewed on The Times.

Give me strength. Because nobody has ever wondered how to change MP3 files into AAC files.

Oh, hold on. Import an MP3 into iTunes and it will convert it to an AAC file. But pirates would never think of that….

March 5, 2009; Apple, Console Gaming, Digital Music;

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