I attest what he says. I myself use R4 in my ds.
You see, almost every place where you go, you can find piracy selling ps2 games. There is not one place selling console here that don't have ps2. Almost every time is a hacked one. In mercado livre(brazilian ebay), every wii(and wiiu) areadly have a sayng: hacked for wii games.
PC games a are popular around here, not because they are better, but because they are cheaper(our laws don't onerate virtual sales, not yet). I'm almost free from piracy in my computer games because of that, but the rest its hard yet.
Yet, nintendo its not guitly free. They never localised their games here, thing that almost every major publisher is doing for some years now. WiiU still hadn't it's launch around here, and we have only a promisse: this year ending. Not a date, or a price. They don't have a "nintendo brasil", like sony, microsoft, ubisoft and capcom have. They a have a subside company to sell and do events around here(events are getting better, its true). We don't have club nintendo. Wii came around here bigger priced than 360, and its not that good yet, a bare minimum difference.
The thing i hate: we used to have snes been produced around here(by gradient, not nintendo itself), but the company stoped this in production in game cube era( we still have 360 and ps3 been produced around here). Nintendo never had a monopoly around here, sega did very well in this country, and ps1 and 2 dominate the others. Still, nintendo is lacking competence. It's hard, i know, but you are older, should be knowing this things areadly. It really sad be like me: a brazillian nintendo fan living near the amazon rani forest.
"Hardware design isn’t about making the most powerful thing you can.
Today most hardware design is left to other companies, but when you make hardware without taking into account the needs of the eventual software developers, you end up with bloated hardware full of pointless excess. From the outset one must consider design from both a hardware and software perspective."
Gunpei Yoko







