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I recognize there is more software piracy, playing downloaded software data without purchase, than some years ago, on many of the current platforms including Nintendo DS. You have noted one of Magic-Coms (dedicated to DS), but I think I can declare that software piracy impacts ALL video game platforms today. As for the piracy itself, it is said to be hard to precisely figure out the total impact as it is done underground. Actually piracy has become more widespread in Europe than in U.S., especially in specific European nations where piracy regulation is restricted by the law. Thus we should assume that Europe is seeing a larger impact than U.S. - Satoru Iwata
I wonder why the situation is different here in the states. I know there is a lot of piracy going on here, but it doesn't seem to be talked about as much. Perhaps the truth threat isn't realized because piracy is so secretive here!
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It's the Nintendo Q&A session at the October Tokyo Financial Results briefing. The translated version is now available today.
Snippets of this stuff showed up on various gaming sites the last few days, but this is the entire thing translated. Some good stuff in there.
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library ... index.html
EDIT: OK, I get what he is doing - 12 separate posts.
Also, you're even screwed when it comes to Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. I had to choose 'United Kingdom' in the Wii Menu as my location or it wouldn't even let me connect.
Oh, I would forget. Prices. In those poorer countries of course (and there are many of those in Europe). Yeah, it is about 190-210 PLN, which kinda is like 60-70 bucks, but we earn different amount of money here. I'm a working student, and buying one game is like 1/3-1/4 of my paycheck.
But it's not only the Wii. As far as I remember, piracy was at large in all of Europe.
This is the fault with Nintendo and publishers.
Unless he is counting PSN sharing as Piracy there is no PS3 piracy whatsoever.
Also, (at least in France) so much parents buys Wii or DS for there children, with a R4 or a chip (or whatever). You know, parents don't care about videogames (they don't understand these "things") but when it comes with loadings 100 DS roms on a R4 card, without even checking which game it was, which content, etc..., they know how to do it (or how to get it done). And in France, games are looked as something expensive that is not worth the money it costs.
Getting the hardware is ok, because having a console makes you look cool (even though if you can get it from Micromania or Toys'r'us with 2 or 3 shovelware it's better). But paying for the software is so uncool. People think "who does that nowadays ?", or "A lot of people actually pay for the games, if I download it once, it will not change things that much".
Europe gets games much, much later most of the time, and they keep trying to stop them from importing things.
Make that 6, counting Portugal (Nintendo of Iberia is for Spain and Portugal)
But yeah, we even have a running joke in the forum I'm in. Most of the staff pirates games xD (they never review a pirated game though)
Exactly. This entry was nowhere near surprising.
For example, Europe never had SMRPG until 2008 (?), obviously - no, inevitably, there will be piracy for people who wants ti play unreleased games.
Yeah. In my case, Disaster and Fatal Frame 4 are titles I had to play illegally, and I want to play Captain Rainbow, but not that badly. That's the extent of that, though.
Europe generally gets the short end of the stick.
Also, if I am not mistaken, I thought Nintendo of Europe is the very REASON the Wii isn't region free like it was intended to be.
If I was European, I'd pirate left and right for that reason alone.
-Europeans get old news, and are already waiting for sequels.
-Games are more expensive here.
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