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Post by Doubutsu80 on Apr 8, 2005 14:53:37 GMT -5
Russia too... any untapped market usually comes with a bad pirate scene. I think Nintendo is particularly interested in tapping China, not just to cut off the piracy scene, but also to grab hold of the country with the highest population. I wouldn't be surprised if India, with its increasingly popular reputation and a seedling of capitalist reform being planted, would be next. Country with the highest-density population... multiplayer games could do well  I don't think the Russians would be involved in this type of crime. Although we won the Cold War against them |
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Post by Andronicus on Apr 8, 2005 20:41:24 GMT -5
I fail to see how the Cold War has any leaning on Nintendo's future as a company that develops video games and systems on which to play these games.  And, I would have to agree with Fryguy on that point regarding Nintendo's position - indeed, when you do include all of Nitendo's sytems, Microsoft suddenly seems to slip behind Nintendo - I think most people forget that, and tend only to compare the home console systems. I imagine that this will all change with the advent of the PSP - there will be much more focus on handheld gaming devices now - the playing field's about to get a whole lot more competitive for all players invloved. This is where it gets really interesting from a business standpoint... ;D |
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Post by Fryguy64 on Apr 9, 2005 4:56:18 GMT -5
I don't think the Russians would be involved in this type of crime. Although we won the Cold War against them You do talk a load of rubbish sometimes. ANYONE can be involved in game piracy. If you have game Roms on your PC then you are involved in game piracy wherever you are from. These games are so easily ripped from the carts and uploaded to servers on the internet that anyone from anywhere could do it, so long as they had access to the actual games. Fact is, Nintendo is powerless to stop the problem in countries where copyright licensing is not really considered. This includes a very large chunk of the Asian continent (including Russia), north and south Africa, the Middle East, Mexico and southern America, some parts of Europe... etc etc. In ALL of these places software piracy is a big issue, and in places such as the US, Europe, Australia and (to a lesser extent) Japan, software piracy still occurs. ANYWHERE, ANYONE, ANYETC.!! |
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Post by Andronicus on Apr 9, 2005 5:04:30 GMT -5
Yep - that's about right. Interesting thing you reminded me of there Fryguy (and slightly, ever so slightly, on a tangent here) - Australia has just tightened their laws on video game piracy. Apparently, anybody convicted of trading pirated video games faces a flat 2 years imprisonment! There has been a HUGE crack-down as of late... which is good for the video game companies. Personally, I have no roms - the way I see it, I wouldn't be much of a Nintendo supporter if I stole their stuff... It wasn't THAT off-topic I suppose, but I thought I'd just add that little bit of information to this here discussion - how thoughtful, hmm? Right, whatever...  |
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Post by Doubutsu80 on Apr 9, 2005 15:45:26 GMT -5
Okay, maybe i went a little too far on my opinion.
All i know is that the majority of pirated games come from either Malaysia or China.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Apr 10, 2005 13:24:25 GMT -5
No, the majority of pirated games come from everywhere... maybe the majority that YOU have seen come from China and Malaysia, but fact is the problem is worldwide. Singling out a nation or two and pointing the finger while simultaneously ignoring the piracy going on in your own country, or the big western countries, is hypocritical if nothing else.
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Post by Solid Snake on Apr 20, 2005 12:34:59 GMT -5
Side note: some pirated GBA game box's back have some articles ripped(whatever the right term is) from some websites, and even their instruction manuals, the few that do. In fact one pirated Dragon ball game i have for GBA has information about the Dragonball DVD in their manuals... I rambed too much, did I?  |
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Post by Dances in Undergarments on Apr 20, 2005 20:09:46 GMT -5
Personally, I have no roms - the way I see it, I wouldn't be much of a Nintendo supporter if I stole their stuff... I have some ROMs. A couple of SNES ones, and a few GBA games that a friend gave me. Although I don't play them much. On one hand, its good, as I have tried out some games I wouldn't have usually and I will now go out and buy them. Of course, I am stealing the GBA ones. The SNES ones (Earthbound, Super Metroid) aren't really stolen, and if Nintendo rereleases them I will get them. Wow. That was off-topic. |
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Post by Andronicus on Apr 20, 2005 22:20:00 GMT -5
Earthbound is OK for us PAL territorials... one day it may come in a legitimate form though... one day... |
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Post by Fryguy64 on Apr 21, 2005 3:05:13 GMT -5
ROMs is a tricky subject. I'd be lying if I said I didn't use them, but I find there's no greater satisfaction than actually having the game to play on a console as it was meant to be. Which is why I've made Nintendo a lot of money over the last decade  |
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Post by Solid Snake on Apr 23, 2005 11:56:38 GMT -5
Some website provides writeable cartige for the SNES, so all you have to do is copy the ROM from your computer to it, opcourse it requires some extra hardware, and yes I forgot it's adress! |
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