R4 chip brings Nintendo DS piracy to an all time high

[HEXUS]

A newspaper report suggests that in North America approximately 90 percent of DS gamers are now using the notorious R4 piracy chip to get their illegal fix of hand-held gaming.

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[dave87]

If I'm honest, its scaremongering. Record sales, and 90% of people pirating games? Rubbish.

[usxhe190]

"The implications are massive. In America, it is thought 100 percent of ELSPA spokemen love pulling statistics out from their behind because of low intelligence."

[DavidM]

Of course - the fact that people can use them for none-pirating purposes - seems to have been overlooked.

[Agent]

Reports by who exactly?

[nichomach]

Well, personally I'm perfectly prepared to believe it since obviously the loss of revenue means they can only afford to pay drooling mouth-breathers to write the reports...

[MadduckUK]

you mean.... theres a device that lets you play DS games for NOTHING?!

before i read this ELSPA article i had absolutely no idea that such a device existed! i guess if 90% of people are using it it must be acceptable and i should look into this more closely


dont have a DS, dont want a DS

[usxhe190]

the "report" is just something John Hillier of ELSPA said - no published reports or anything

edit - seems like there was an American newspaper.

[Nickg]

well they do offer good value for money, unlike the majority of DS games which look like they were designed by a 3 year old, for a 3 year old with the attention span of, you guessed it, a 3 year old.

Can ELSPA prove that x many DS's would have been sold if it were NOT for the R4 cart?

i.e some DS owners would never have owned a DS to begin with if they could not have got an R4 for it.

Also, it has expanded the branding of the game publishers into households where maybe that publisher/developer may not have had a foothold. i.e a person may have like 20 games on their R4, but if they did not have the R4 this does not mean that they would have bought said 20 games. ..

[usxhe190]

ELSPA has to prove their existence - they used to do charts for games (sorta like HMV) and volunteered to age rate games and now does anti-privacy as well (although they have no money to sue or anything like that)

[Steven W]

"The implications are massive. In America, it is thought 100 percent of ELSPA spokemen love pulling statistics out from their behind because of low intelligence."

LOL.

ELSPA really has had a massive presence over the last year and have been getting their name about everywhere. They issue press releases frequently, on a weekly basis about piracy. It really has only started in the last year though.

I can't believe the figure would be as high as 90%.

I also edited Reports suggest to A newspaper report suggests as it was misleading.

[dangel]

Piracy has supposed to have killed just about every media by now.

Remember when they still had the pennies to make movies, games, software and music? Sigh.

[kalniel]

well they do offer good value for money, unlike the majority of DS games which look like they were designed by a 3 year old, for a 3 year old with the attention span of, you guessed it, a 3 year old...

Would that explain why it's the best selling console?

[Nickg]

yes because parents will buy anything to hush their kids.

i own a DSlite BTW, i owned a DS, white DSlite and now a black DSlite.

i only play like 4 games, the rest are totally numb.

[kalniel]

Well that's why I'm wondering what the fuss is about this chip thingy. Parents don't want their kids to be using dodgy software that might contain who-knows-what, and if people like you only play 4 games then what's the incentive to pirate others?

[Steven W]

yes because parents will buy anything to hush their kids.

i own a DSlite BTW, i owned a DS, white DSlite and now a black DSlite.

i only play like 4 games, the rest are totally numb.

Same here I play the same three or four over and over again. I've played so much tat on the DS.