Poll: R4 will it destroy nintendo?
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The Wii is fucking boring as hell. They don't need to kill my dog.Portal Maniac said:
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I have to give it to you, that is hilarious.Cortheya said:
Anyways, the PSP is much easier to pirate games on. You dont even need any extra equipment, just more memory on the mem stick. Although, Sony doesnt seem to be doing very well, but then again, who is?
Piracy didn't kill PC's yet. It didn't kill the PSP, and the original xbox had something similar, and that didn't kill it. Thanks to Halo I suppose.
Yeah, they're only bringing in a new market of young and old gamers.Portal Maniac said:
Seriously, hate them all you want, but we need nintendo. Sony and Microsoft aren't exactly catering to the younger generation; we need a constant stream of new gamers coming into the market, or it eventually will stagnate and die.
I mean, honestly, can you see video gaming still being a major part of your life in your late 20's and early 30's?
Because right now, they're just on the brink of bankruptcy. I'm tired of defending them from people like you and the guy who posted after you. The Wii has some great games on it, and I've used my Wii more than my 360. I like both consoles, but I hate people who say "the Wii sux. It no has shooty-game for me to shoot." Expand your horizons. Try a game that's below an M rating. I love things like Boom Blox, but you'd look at it and say it's crap.Portal Maniac said:
Edit: Oh, and what the guy above me said.
I don't believe you can actually find any objective evidence to back your claim. Piracy might not yet have destroyed a major company, and I'm equally certain that tracking the true extent of such a nebulous problem is impossible, but I can assume with fair certainty without any evidence that the simple fact that someone who gets a game for free respresents a potential (i.e. non zero chance) loss in income of some kind for that very game is, quite naturally considered harmful to a business.TheNecroswanson said:
The backlash against the honest consumer of course is just one side effect of the problem, and to an extent this iron fisted control attempt (that seems ineffective) also appears to be harming gaming on at least one place based entirely on anectotal evidence (i.e. balogna). If the anti-piracy measures are causing consumers to turn away from games from a given publisher or on a given platform, and those measures are taken as a result of piracy, we find by the transitive property (math rules work in real life right?) that piracy is once again at fault.
Square Enix initially defeated the flash cart owners when Chrono Trigger came out, but I've heard that a cracked version exists. Still, clever move on their part to make it a bit more difficult to pirate the game. Quite a few ROM dumps of the older (nonworking) version are out there, enough to convince a few folks who might've pirated it to buy it.
Quoted for Truth.Knight Templar said:
No way it's going to cause Nintendo to go under. Although, it's probably not intelligent to inform people about it if you don't want Nintendo to die.
And if you do, I feel sorry for you.
That's right, how dare they make games for people other than you. The sheer gall of them, not catering to you and you alone. I'm as outraged by their antics as you are. People who don't like violence and tits don't deserve quality games, and God damn Nintendo for pretending otherwise.Portal Maniac said:
On-topic, no, R4 will not destroy Nintendo. Apart from the fact that they're already taking steps [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.90930] to stop R4, the device itself isn't going to become mainstream enough to bring Nintendo down, not by a long shot. It will cut into their sales, but they have sources of revenue beyond DS games, and not even everybody who knows about it will use it.
Nintendo produces more than just the "nintendo DS". It has other products that sell more, and bring more profit.....like say....the Wii, and appropriate peripherals.
Hmmm... I'll have to look that up. Maybe that's the one that plays GBA, GBC, N64, SNES and NES games. If so, I want it. Badly.Peach_hat said:
And I didn't take into account currency differences either. I paid $60 Canadian, and that was when our dollar was on par with the States.
Nope, but it will destroy some small indie companies developping for the DS and increases the amount of shovelware released for the system as opposed to truly good or original games. The effects of the enormous amount of DS piracy is already visible: Chrono Trigger for example is extremely hard to find in stores.