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Originally Posted by Nightengale
That would make sense if Nervegear was a SAO-unique device.
However, as we've seen from the episode itself, SAO itself was just a software for the already existing Nervegear console.
Which means that there's actually hundreds of thousands of 'those brain-frying helmets' out there at retail for tinkering and dismantling.  |
The catch is that NervGear wasn't just some random console that Kayaba decided to use to carry out his plan, Kayaba designed NervGear, it is a part of his plan.
In the real world, it wouldn't really matter much as there are always smarter (or at least more) people that you can use to throw at a problem, but this is an anime story, and the setting is that Kayaba is a friggin genius, and that everyone who tried to find a way to get around the safeguards he designed around NervGear and SAO failed, and that's that.
TBH, if you want to play the "but, but in the real world...!" game, you can pretty much rip apart the storyline in just about every anime out there.