"Nintendo has urged the U.S. Trade Representative to put pressure on countries where pirating of its video games are rife. Nintendo says that its suffering huge losses due to the increasing amount of online piracy. The company also says that it wants certain file sharing websites to be blocked so that consumers can’t get hold of the downloadable games so easily. Nintendo will also pursue criminal prosecution against those who pirate games or facilitate copyright infringement."
Remember last year when Nintendo announced the large amount of pirated copies of Xenoblade Chronicles? Wii and DS games are the easiest systems in their categories to hack, and piracy runs rampant across both consoles. With infamous Wii and DS emulators like NO$GBA and Dolphin that allow users to play DS and Wii games on their PC, and console hacks such as R4 cards and the Homebrew Channel - it's no wonder why the Big N wants to crack down on pirates.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Danish from eXputer: "Nintendo has historically gone against player-made content and emulation of its games. This has done much to harm the company's image."
They need to stop announcing these mods and fan remakes until they're finished. Finish it, upload it, and then if Nintendo dmca's it tough shit. Once it's online, people can share it around, even if the original download gets taken down.
This is all coming from the mouth of short-sighted fandom and grifting madness.
No.... it wont. There is a clear defined reason why they don't. This is nothing new. Make your own shi7 from your own original ideas especially if you are trying to capitalize of it it. Duh.
Yeah, hire people that have zero respect or understanding for an established process. Wow. Yep. Totally makes sense.
Nintendo got hit bad during the Wii/NDS era.
Pirates are going to get Super Mario stomped.
hmm... This sounds like a new idea for a Mario game.
where nintendo is landslide wrong here: to think that every pirated copy equals a loss of income. i beg to differ: most of their stuff gets pirated because no one is willing to pay much money for their low efforts. who on earth is going to pay for tons of shovelware except for some hardcore-dummies aka casuals?
this is the same misconception the movie-industry and the music-industry have been whining about: no sooner when the last medium gets hyperprotected against any kind of piracy then they will start to realize that shit just does not sell very well.
Good luck Nintendo, you will need it.
I think the Region Lock of the system influences this a lot so thats why its the most likely to be supported by people to resort to hack it.
I hope the wii u is not so easy to crack! so far so good but those people who have advertised the fact they are trying to hack it need to be hauled up in front of a judge a put in jail!!! its the only way we will stop people ruining the gaming industry and the online experience on game platforms! look at the issues that were on wii with cod games? nearly every kid ran codes to cheat! look at the same issues with xbox, pc and ps3?
The companies need to take security of their consoles seriously as Sony nearly found out a couple of years ago!!!
Myx23! you are a sorry sad person that's all I can say!!