Negative Sun Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Clicky Lolz, maybe they should speak to their marketing manager who couldn't foresee that for the second year in a row, there have been major Wii and DS console shortages in the UK and other countries for months now, maybe you could have made another billion from that guys? And it's funny to make an estimate like that saying that every illegal copy is a copy they could have sold...Eh? The most likely reason why people pirate the media is because they don't want to buy it in the first place guys! I'm surprised this statement came from Nintendo as I would expect either Microsoft or Sony to be moaning about this type of things... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Char Ell Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Clicky no worky. EDIT: Thanks for fixing the link Negs. Hmmm... So all this piracy is occurring for DS titles? The author does seems to think that USD$975 million is an exaggeration on Nintendo's part. Software piracy is a problem for the entire industry though, not just game publishers like Nintendo. Microsoft is all too aware of the impact piracy has on their sales. Can't blame Nintendo for wanting to protect their investment, even if they are overstating the numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nedak Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Let the pity begi--- DONE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Sun Posted February 17, 2008 Author Share Posted February 17, 2008 Fix'd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev7 Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Too bad for Nintendo. That is a lot of money those pirates stole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeDoe 2.0 Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 That's too bad, Nintendo is a hard working company that introduced them to video games, harsher laws should be made against piracy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeiamyourdad Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 You know, this is a Nintendo estimate. It could very well be overblown to look worse then it actually is. It would be interesting to see how they came up with such a number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 I know DS pirating is huge, because you only need 1 special cart and you can save tons of DS games to it. It would be nice if there was something Nintendo could do about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadYorick Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Nintendo should stop whining and actually think about its gamers for a change instead of itself. Since their consoles are always sold out before the store is even open. Besides Nintendo already has gotten billions of dollars from the Wii and DS alone. Not to mention its decades of billions from other games. But the more money you have the more likely you are to worrying about how much money your losing. Besides even if there would be new laws people are always going to pirate games and music. It is inevitable and will always be around. (not saying that I pirate games. Its just the inevitability) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 I know DS pirating is huge, because you only need 1 special cart and you can save tons of DS games to it. It would be nice if there was something Nintendo could do about it. pretty much zilch atm, maybe some type of security on the ROMS, but that'd probably be cracked anyway I have a relative who got one of those gizmos for his kids DS. For about the cost of 1 game, you can have all the nintendo catalogue. If it was me in charge: i'd come up with an official nintendo version of aforementioned gadget, make games entirely electronic, encrypt them better, and reduce the price by magnitudes as you dont have to worry about packaging and distro... but thatd make too much sense wouldnt it!! mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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