Comments on: Nintendo Wii falls to piracy

By: xmido

xmido — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:57:35 +0000

games r just expensive and overpriced. when u make a game u only make it once. but u pay full price for each copy. i dont think the dvd and the manual and case will cost them more than $5. now paying $60 for a game is just too much in any standard. yes i can buy a game. but my collection will be limited. i would play only the highest rated games.

i have over $10,000 worth of games i would have never played without piracy.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:34:10 +0000

No.
Better games would not stop piracy, you are joking yourself if you believe that. It’s cheaper to pirate than it is to buy. Until that changes, I won’t really be buying games. I pirate PSP, DS, wii, Ps2 games. Because it’s easy and it’s cheap and I am poor as hell. even if I wasn’t, I’d rather spend my money elsewhere. Games need to get bigger. Not more bloated, just more detailed. if a game was a 40GB torrent, I would say fuck that. Ps3 piracy would cost more than a large number of PS3 games because of the cost of blank Blurays, and a bluray burner. Step it up. or step it down. If games costed 5-10 bucks, I’d buy the hell out of them. But oh well. No one will take the suggestions of an admittant pirate too seriously.

Either way, data is infinite, so I’m just playing something I wouldn’t play otherwise – would you rather have your book read by all, but only 5% pay for it, or have 15% of the world read your book, all having paid? It’s not like me buying it specifically benefits the hard working programmers and designers.

By: tamar

tamar — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:34:01 +0000

i have agree that piracy is a circular problem. but as with the mp3 issue, i think it’s shortsighted to not realize that the exposure of having access to titles you would have normally never heard of, brings to console gaming overall.

or perhaps that is only my viewpoint. to be honest, nintendo or microsoft or sony get more money from me than they normally would get simply because of exposure. i usually limit the amount i spend by buying later, trading with friends, renting from blockbuster or buying used.

and just like the movie companies, instead of wasting their time complaining about what will happen anyway, they should add value to the purchase (ie, free subscriptions, keychains, demos, guides etc etc). i know i am willing to pay to see a movie if it has 3-d or something extra.

By: Ninty

Ninty — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:34:38 +0000

After I purchase a few game on nintendo wii, I am furious with the quality of games like Escape from Bugs Island with it lame unfinished worse game I had ever played and surely regret wasting £39.99 on this piece of crap sp I had turn to Modchips like many other. Since then I had played lots of Wii games and gladly say that I’d recommend anyone to try out the game before buying as there is no demo to try out.

Dont worry, and thanks to those Modchips I had purchased Residient Evil 4 and GT Pro as well as Godfather Blackhand Edition with Blazing Angel.

I dont care about nintendo no more and I shall call them Jap imitation once more again.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:37:23 +0000

This chip does not circumvent the region protection – you are still only able to play the games for the region the console was designed.