Nintendo Getting Pwned By Pirates

"Enough is enough", says Nintendo, while drenching its sorrows into a delightful bottle of first-class alcohol. After summing up some numbers, the guys from the American subsidiary managed to come up with financial losses that nets the piracy phenomenon no less than 975 million USD. This also involves the publishers and developers working alongside Nintendo for the good of mankind.

Piracy is no stranger to the PC gaming community, with torrents of every game and its mother flooding the Internet - but it seems our console comrades are also enjoying the... not so legal art of fucking up the system. Of course, China is still number one when it comes to manufacturing illegal DS and Wii games, while Korea is the big bad ass regarding online console game files distribution. The same lists gathers even more names, with South-American countries like Brazil or Mexico spitting pirated Nintendo software out of every asshole available.

And of course, all Nintendo wants is a set of new laws. More aggressive measures, more retards in jail, and so on and so forth. Personally, I am all in favor of the "get your butt to the store and buy the damn game", but developers and publishers alike must also "fit" their prices for the different types of markets out there. In Romania, for example, a DS game may sometimes cost a quarter of your average paycheck, which is a lot.

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