My friend who lives in South America says nearly all stores in his city sell all 3 major consoles already chipped to play copies and buying them this way is often cheaper than going to official stores and buying an unchipped one! Then he buys games for $5 each, lucky *ucker!
The chipped Wii he recently bought was $350 /£175 and he got 10 games for it which cost him $50.
He has several hundred PS2 games many which he has never even played.
I suppose when you are paying the equivalent of £2.50 per game it isn't so important to get much play out of them.
As for virtual console games, you can already play nearly all the games on xbox live arcade for free using MAME and most Nintendo games from NES to N64 are playable on your PC using emulators.
I have over 1000 MAME roms, but it is nice to be able to compete with others on the Xbox live high score table which unfortunately the Wii doesn't have.
