Nintendo cripples DS' R4 piracy threat

Finally, eBay and Amazon ban sale of illegal cards; 411,000 dodgy devices confiscated

Nintendo has revealed a major breakthrough in its fight against the pirate cards that are wrecking DS software revenues – as online giants Amazon and eBay finally agree to prohibit the sale of the devices.

[hitthegspot]

too little too late for the DS. Hopefuly this will help the DSi's future...

[D4RkNIKON]

I definitely agree with you, This is a major step for Nintendo tho to keep these from spreading to new customers, or just make it that much harder to get a hold of one. I mean 411,000 of them were confiscated, they must feel like they made a difference.

[gaffyh]

They've limited it, but by no means have they crippled it. You can buy the cards from high street stores

[LeGenDx]

i barely play my ds, i gave it to my brother

[Yi-Long]

... is because of the R4 card. Many people who otherwise wouldn't even have thought about buying a DS, bought one cause they know they can just download games for it. Same with the PSP btw.

I can understand Nintendo's wish to keep all those R4 cards from the public, cause it's hurting software sales, but you can't neglect the fact that if the DS wouldn't have had that R4 card, many people wouldnt have bought the system in the first place, meaning no software sales from that people what-so-ever.

Those people who would only buy a DS (or PSP) that's 'modded', will still only do so when it comes with the R4 card. I'm pretty sure that still won't be too hard, even after these actions.

[danny_chan89]

R4 Defiantly is popular, my little sister even uses one o.O

[Yi-Long]

... an R4 card is just a whole lot more customer-friendly: you have all your games and saves on 1 card. That's perfect. Same goes for the PSP btw.

[josh14399]

lol i ordered an r4 on tuesday but its alredy been dispatched

[Microsoft Xbox 360]

This doesn't stop sh*t because nobody gives a damn about R4's these days. Acekard is where its at.

[-x.Red.x-]

acekard FTW

[Yi-Long]

What's Acekard!?

[kwyjibo]

MCV have told you it is though, because it's a trade magazine, and aimed at those who like to pretend it is.

In 2008, an appeal heard at Bristol Crown Court ruled that modchips were legal - http://www.techradar.com/ne...

MCVUK have chosen not to cover this, still toeing the industry line. I am surprised eBay have relented, do they really think that the loss they take on this will enable them to sell more games? It's not like they deal with the platform holders directly, is it?

It's a shame.

[fatstarr]

lmfao i looked at the pokemon platnum sales. 967,675 in 2 days(japan)
the rom downloads from 7 sites =37,894(us) when all combined o.o ouch for crippling. and i think r4's are needed when ppl wana sell crap party games for 34.99 or garbage games, i use my m3 for homebrew and to play some crapy games i will nvr buy. but A AA AAA titles i must buy.. blood of the bahmut and kingdom hearts = a must buy.

=[ dont flame my numbers(lazy)
the only way nintendo can defeat r4 is if they change laws, but u cant 1 is legally allowed to back up their media for ones purpose. or thats what i remember.

[kaya122]

Im glad that they finally did this. Piracy was becoming a real problem for DS.

[Iceman100]

Listen nintendo and competitors you will never win stop wasting your time and money.

[KeenanTheSavage]

It's just too late to stop the R4, and even any flash card for the DS. I mean, there are just too many of the cards out there, and any moron could find a card online now-a-days. I hope that they stop it on the DSi though. :)

[lizard81288]

eBay and Amazon, gee-wiz, now where am i suppose to buy one now....
besides, from what i've heard those two sites really only had r4 clones, if anything else. i really think one of the reasons the DSi was made was to stop this, however nintendo has two things on their hands now, r4 and the homebrew channel, no matter how much they will try, there will always be a way, the HBC already has a work around for 4.0, and the DSi has the R4i/R4 ultra out now. and there cheap too, like 5 bucks for a new one...
<_<
>_>

not that i would know that from experience or anything...