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A staggeringly high proportion of North American DS owners playing copied games according to ELSPA spokesperson...
A report in The Sunday Post alleges that up to 90% of DS owners in the US are playing pirated software according to John Hillier, Manager of ELSPA's Intellectual Property Crime Unit.
The article suggests that a flash-based memory cartridge manufactured in China is the main culprit. Purchased up and down the country from the web or car-boot sales, the cartridge is used to store illegally downloaded games and bypasses the security measures in place on the Nintendo DS.
Hiller claims, "The implications are massive. In America it's thought 90 per cent of Nintendo DS users are playing pirated games."
"Takings from Nintendo DS games in the US are lower than any other console and no doubt it will have a similar impact here.
Whether the facts and figures are clear and correct remains uncertain at this stage, certainly why a UK governing board is talking about the American market seems a little strange to us. We'd also suggest that revenue from DS sales would be lower than other consoles due to the lower retail price for games.
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Added:Sat 23rd Oct 2010 16:18, Post No: 77
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Added:Wed 21st Apr 2010 09:52, Post No: 76
Damn fine answer there...
Added:Wed 21st Apr 2010 02:55, Post No: 75
Maybe if Europe wasn't treated with active contempt by Nintendo, the R4 wouldn't be so damn popular, and there'd be a bit more brand loyalty >_>
Added:Tue 20th Apr 2010 13:29, Post No: 74
"**Recently, Ubisoft's CEO Yves Guillemot outlined the problem that they faced with the DS market, albeit not blaming the device specifically:
"The considerable contraction in the DS market during the year particularly affected Ubisoft, leading to a €160 million, or almost 50%, year-on-year drop in the Company’s casual segment sales."**"
I look at this section and think what utter morons ubisoft have working for them.....there is a
world-wide Recession on so casual sales are going to take a huge hit for everyone....not all people can still casually drop the cash for luxuries like new DS carts or X-Box discs etc
Added:Fri 12th Mar 2010 01:50, Post No: 73
fuu[#@!?] dude. who the fuuck gives a shiit about your nintendo ds and its bull[#@!?] wifi capabilities. moron
Added:Thu 11th Mar 2010 09:27, Post No: 72
My nindtendo DSi need wireless, system update. Please give me some software to use the nintedo DSi.
Added:Fri 26th Feb 2010 04:35, Post No: 71
if you want to now go o youtube and find a clue i will tell mor clews later
Added:Fri 26th Feb 2010 04:33, Post No: 70
i know i secoret to locate the nashinul guferment cp on your ds but it is a secoet no one will know about it not even the fuss
Added:Thu 10th Dec 2009 12:45, Post No: 69
cool i have a ds i want i dsi but for some reson i like the ds more then the psp thats just me
Added:Tue 08th Dec 2009 13:05, Post No: 68
What do you want to know - there's hundresd of news stories related to the DS on this index page?!?!