Piracy is mostly an upstream and culture situation. The PSP piracy extravaganza as it seems is mostly because the PSP is a upstream niche market. Where most of these upstream market have the talent to pirate.
The DS is a downstream and bridge/everyone market. So yes piracy is rampant, probably more so, but since the the downstream is such more massive and less tech savvy to pirate. Making it less noticble.
The SD card will not noticibly increase piracy because of this. All the PSP pirates I know also pirate DS games. Actaully all the PSP guys I know are tech savvy and have pirated to some degeee. I do know many people with DS, but aren't tech savvy and thus don't pirate DS games.
Theres nothing wrong with the game cube remakes. The GC had the LOWEST install base last generation. With the Wii being the highest isntall base opens up a massive market to people who didn't play games like AC or Pikmin. With the pointer it makes these games even better. For the already Nintendo gamer from last gen. Then you either played it already and don't need to buy it or take the oppertunity to play it with better controls. I never played Prime 1 & 2 because I won't play FPS with anything but pointer + move controls. ie no Dual Analog.
As for the sterio types. Who knows. We will find out soon enough, but didn't Punch out already release on VC without problems?
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
