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weezy on 23 October 2007
Words Of Wisdom said:
blaydcor said:

If by some years you mean like 10, then, yeah, maybe. By the time decent emulators for this gen are developed with the everyday user's PC strong enough to utilize them, the only point of having one will be because the actualy systems will be so outdated they'll be hard to find.


Unless Sony goes and pulls a Nintendo and does their own VC.


what games would be on sonys VC?

Wild arms? mlb99?

Nintendo's VC is awesome because all of the nintendo made games.

 



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omgwtfbbq on 23 October 2007
Words Of Wisdom said:
omgwtfbbq said:

It's all good for you who lives in America to say "well who cares about mod chips, they're all a bunch of pirates anyway" but you'd be feeling different if you were still waiting for Metroid like we are, if you didn't get Zack & Wiki until December, if you didn't get SMG until three weeks after everyone else has played it. If you had to wait FIVE MONTHS for Super Paper Mario. And then you had to pay almost double for the privilage. You'd be singing a very different tune if you got our treatment. And yes, I have a WiiKey in my Wii, and it's going to pay for itself when I import Zack & Wiki 2 months earlier than I'd get it and for AU$40 cheaper


That's like saying it's okay to rob someone because you're poor.

It's a bad argument.

With the main difference that robbery is illegal and importing games is not. So your argument = fail.

 



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omgwtfbbq on 23 October 2007
cloud_IX said:
you say it might pay for itself but won't it be a waste of money when you update your firmware and your imported games stop working...
Really? Well I've updated my firmware three sine I got it. One of them required an update to the WiiKey's firmware (the 3.0 major upgrade), and the other two minor updates made no difference.

 



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omgwtfbbq on 23 October 2007
BenKenobi88 said:
Yes, it's unfair that Europeans and other countries usually pay more for games...but isn't even MORE unfair when you decide to buy a $1 copy of a game? That means WE'RE paying $50 a pop, and you're, in reality, paying much less. And you wonder why the cycle continues.

Huh? How does importing games from US mean that I'm paying $1? Of course the potential is there for me to play pirate games (actually not really. I don't have enough spare bandwidth to download games, and copying games requires a special dvd reader which I don't have). Just like you always have the potential to install a WiiKey or to copy DVDs. Just because the potential is there doesn't mean I do it. 

Sorry but your argument is bogus. There is nothing wrong with Wiikeys. In fact, to abide by law in Australia, Nintendo should be selling Wiis with Wiikeys preinstalled, since region locking is illegal over here. So in reality, it's Nintendo who is breaking Australian law by selling region locked consoles and now are making things worse by trying to shut down the only means of unlocking it.



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omgwtfbbq on 23 October 2007
TWRoO said:
I live in UK and it is irritating to get games later (i don't mind a week or three but 5 months is inexcusable)....if they are planned from the start for all regions they should at least come out within a month of each other.

And i kind of agree with your CD burner point, in that it is probably used to copy CDs more than anything....however what exactly can Nintendo do, they can't run around finding the people who actually pirate games the same that almost no-one stops people copying CDs.
tough shit. If they can't catch everyone who's breaking the law, then that's their problem. Don't take it out on law abiding people. "Oh I can't find the person who stole that loaf of bread. Let's just lock up the whole town, we're bound to get the perpetrator then!"

 



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eatrice on 23 October 2007
TWRoO said:
wow, how much is a PS3 in Brasil....(i thought it was Brazil)

 I could be wrong, my friend who is brazillian and travels down there every now and then, said the PS3 is only about 1500. Why there is a disparity between wii ~ 1200 and PS3 ~ 1500 not sure. It could be because of piracy. nintendo is trying to avoid making it cheap and accessible in Brazil.

 FYI:

Brazil is the American spelling.

Brasil is the Portuguese/Brazillian spelling.



TWRoO on 23 October 2007

@omgwtfbbq: more like they are just stopping people making tools designed for the theft of bread.(despite the fact that no such tools are needed, but that's because the bread analogy doesn't fit)

locking up the whole town would be equivalent to locking up the whole videogaming community (or at least all the developers...but no they would be the breadmakers?)

basically bread stealing doesnt fit.

what should have been is the Wii should be region free, which would give no excuses then (The chips would still be made, but only bought by people wanting to actually play pirate games, not by people who are trying to get games at the same time/price as Japan/USA)

So yes it is partly Nintendos fault that things like Wii-Key are as popular as they are.

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I thought it might be something like that with Brasil - Brazil.....i often try to use the British way of large numbers instead of the American, but everyone gets confused.
1 Billion in American = 1,000,000,000    (or one thousand million)  [1X10^9]
1 Billion in British = 1,000,000,000,000  (or one million million)  [1X10^12]

1 Trillion in American = 1,000,000,000,000 (or one million million)  [1X10^12]
1 Trillion in British = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (or one million million million) [1X10^18]

although at least Brazil and Brasil are not so different as to confuse (except isnt there a city in Brasil called Brazil)



Words Of Wisdom on 23 October 2007
omgwtfbbq said:

With the main difference that robbery is illegal and importing games is not. So your argument = fail.


And Nintendo was able to raid a modchip factory because...?



eatrice on 23 October 2007
omgwtfbbq said:
cloud_IX said:
you say it might pay for itself but won't it be a waste of money when you update your firmware and your imported games stop working...
Really? Well I've updated my firmware three sine I got it. One of them required an update to the WiiKey's firmware (the 3.0 major upgrade), and the other two minor updates made no difference.

 


 Is your wii connect 24 on? Nintendo also updated the "User Agreements" so that they can automatically update your firmware (I think). Not sure if they will try and brick pirates  and importers but just a thought (could be just scare tactics).



konnichiwa on 23 October 2007

10.000 in HK when there are millions more.

Small catch.

There was a Chinese article about this too where the government said they are doing their best to catch them all.

I have seen one time what they do if you got caught with a modding console in your store....Big risk but it can make you rich, ;..