Nah, it just slows everything down, increases cost, and does nothing but give Iwata/Nintendo a false sense of security. In one of Nintendo's boneheaded decisions, they made a kill starlet and let everything pass unchecked command (Not an exploit or glitch, it's something Nintendo did intentionally!) that gives full hardware access to anything without question whether the software has the right to do so. On the upside, WiiLinux became so much easy to develop for without the chip in the middle .