Nintendo’s asinine anti-consumer anti-piracy measures are probably causing more harm to the company than this guy ever did.
I might have actually bought a Switch 2 if Nintendo hadn’t pissed me off with their pricing and game cart shenanigans.
You are in the extreme minority. The Switch 2 is already selling better than the original.
Then it seems that Nintendo is also in the extreme minority by claiming this guy’s efforts have done them any harm. How they won this is beyond me.
At launch, the original Switch was incredibly difficult to get. I had to use BrickSeek and out in a fair amount of effort to get one, calling in late to work and going out if my way to pick one up.
In the first two weeks after Switch 2 launched, I had multiple opportunities to buy one off the shelf and I wasn’t even looking for them.
The strong launch supply is the key contributing factor to the sales figures here, I’ll be curious to see how the sales compared after a longer period like one year.
Lot morons in the world. I wont be buying one nor anything else from Nintendo that isn’t used and money goes to some besides them.
I feel the same way. Won’t touch their new crap with a ten foot pole. Vote with your wallet, people.
The only games I’m remotely interested for it are DK and that FromSoft game. I’m not buying a new console from Nintendo of all companies just to gather dust aside from one game a year tops. I’ll wait for the emulation scene to do its thing.
If there’s a silver lining here it’s that you can wait until there are enough interesting games to justify a purchase. If the switch 2’s lifecycle is comparably long as the original Switch’s, that backlog ain’t going anywhere.
Plus if you hold out long enough for the tech to come down in price, you can grab the OLED version that I’m expecting to be announced in a couple of years.
Or just emulate it in a couple years.
Unfortunately they will raise the price by then
And remote bricking!
You’re better off committing tax fraud and admitting to it in court than ignoring a cease and desist from Nintendo. People never learn. They probably don’t even care about the $2 Million, they just do it for the love of the game and to make an example out of you.
The correct business model is to be cheaper and more convenient than piracy. But, since i don’t own my digital products anyway according to these ass hats, then stealing isn’t piracy anyway.
The correct business model is to be cheaper and more convenient than piracy.
Convenient? Yes. Cheaper? How? Piracy is almost always free or requires a one-time purchase.
These days you are insane if you aren’t using a VPN and many people have seedboxes or usenet subscriptions on top.
But yeah. It is mostly a nonsense stance built on a misunderstanding of what companies, particularly GoG/CD Projeckt, have talked about in the past. The idea that they specifically built their product around being a better product than the black market.
What people forget is that GoG wasn’t meant to compete with the pirate bay. It was meant to compete with bootleggers selling burned games at the local mall. That is a populace that is actually willing to spend money but didn’t have an opportunity to do so. Rather than someone who “will buy it if I like it after a few hundred hours”.
then stealing isn’t piracy anyway.
Sometimes stealing is piracy, but pirating digital content is never stealing. It’s copyright infringement.
No, sharing digital content is copyright infringement, but downloading it? Hey, how am I supposed to know this site isn’t legally allowed to give it to me?
True
By that logic AI don’t steal too
Correct.
But who benefits from intellectual property? Not the artists, paid by the companies, who don’t care about who pirates (at least in video games)
Depends entirely on the particular IP and what’s been negotiated.
Nah, the correct business model is to have a system that’s easy to develop for to the point that it has a large and exciting open source and homebrew community attached (which you encourage with events and competitions), and you’re just basically selling them hardware, code, merch, tutorials, assets, and getting a cut of their game sales.
…then you also release your own games, and later spin off the IPs into globally recognized characters and franchises.
So irreparable. They’ll never financially recover from this.
I’m not pro Nintendo by any stretch, however in this particular case the guy seems to have been intent on speedrunning stupid any %. Ignored a cease and desist and then decided he’d defend himself in court. I sympathise to a point, but if a notoriously litigious games company asks you to stop, probably stop.
And to Nintendo $2m is like $.75.
I can’t speak to that specific distributor.
But holy crap was it a feeding frenzy of scammers when the mig switch was announced. I want to say one of the major piracy subreddits banned the same guy like five times because he kept making new stores that would take preorders but never send the cartridge.
And it made sense. Anyone who was even slightly aware of jailbreaking and the like knew that Nintendo put a serial number with every single game and duplicates would insta-ban a console. EVERYONE wanted one and all the interest would dry up within a week of the first units reaching consumers.
So yeah. I hate the precedent of this (and look forward to people still glazing nintendo nonetheless) but it is also hard to really feel bad for scammers who were actively preying on idiots.
