I know middle-aged women & pre-teen kids walking around with 8GB R4s crammed to the gills with ROMs. They _definitely_ weren't trading Amiga diskettes with us scurvy knaves back in the day...Eagle Est1986 said:
Nintendo Blames Piracy For Huge European Sales Drop
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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I can understand going after a dude who uploaded a BRAND NEW GAME, or people who upload DS games, or even Gamecube games. But why the hell do they give so much of a crap about people who upload / download / fan-translate / level-edit games for the older systems like NES and SNES? And if they?re so hellbent on protecting their ?Intellectual Property? why aren?t they going after Joe Blow selling his original NES or SNES and game carts on Ebay? ?Oh, sorry sir but we?re gunna hafta arrest ya, you sold that system and you didn?t give us a dime, plus that?s another person who won?t spend 9000 Wii Points for the game on our Virtual Console!?
Speaking of the Virtual Console, which was supposed to be like their i-Tunes for games, where?s all the good stuff? Sure you got a few major Nintendo-owned titles and even Sonic games, but what if I wanted to play Capcom?s Chip n Dale, or Duck Tales, or Darkwing Duck, or Little Nemo or Acclaim?s Knight Rider? Or Square?s un-released sequel to Secret of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 3) or Enix?s Terranigma (which got a UK release but not a U.S. release) on the SNES? If Nintendo wants to draw people away from emulation and "IP theft", they need to give better incentives for people to use their systems, not jail time. Don?t punish the gamer for liking the older stuff better than what yer making now.
Speaking of the Virtual Console, which was supposed to be like their i-Tunes for games, where?s all the good stuff? Sure you got a few major Nintendo-owned titles and even Sonic games, but what if I wanted to play Capcom?s Chip n Dale, or Duck Tales, or Darkwing Duck, or Little Nemo or Acclaim?s Knight Rider? Or Square?s un-released sequel to Secret of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 3) or Enix?s Terranigma (which got a UK release but not a U.S. release) on the SNES? If Nintendo wants to draw people away from emulation and "IP theft", they need to give better incentives for people to use their systems, not jail time. Don?t punish the gamer for liking the older stuff better than what yer making now.
