So now the company will have ~100m extra revenue in the next 3 months? Right? Right?
Good old ”download equals a sale” rhetoric still doing a lot of work in these headlines. It’s been decades.
I have torrented Mario Kart World one thousand times since it launched and have thus cost Nintendo 70,000 dollars. If I can keep up this pace, Nintendo will be bankrupt within the next year or two.
It’s like girlsmath but for CFOs, I love it
Fighting the good fight
Once more for those in the back.
You.
Will.
Not.
Stop.
Piracy.
Fuuuuuck Nintendo. No one hates their fans more than Nintendo.
They are bricking brand new consoles, locking their USB ports to approved hardware, charging for the tech demo that would customarily be free on an $800 device. And that’s just this year.
I refused to buy anything Sony due to the dodgy shit from the PS3 days. And that’s anything, no TV’s or phones. Nothing. If a film is made by Sony I don’t go to the cinema to see it.
Microsoft is the same. I have only once bought anything from Microsoft and that was a licence for a windows operating system but I can’t even remember which version it was. I know it was from before Windows7. However, never again.
And now Nintendo is on my shit list.
The government fights this hard over labor’s lost wages too, right?
Just chuckled at the idea of the FBI doing something valuable for society.
Focusing on the important issues…
Like installing fascism in 🇺🇲
🙄
So Nintendo is gonna become richer by that amount in just 3 months?
I love how they always try to pull the same bull that if the only way to obtain something like a ROM was through legal means that these companies would suddenly see a surge of millions more in revenue.
It’s just as absurd as the people who say that thoughts and prayers alone will eventually end all school shootings in America.
These loss figures are always fun. Me pirating a game i would NEVER have played otherwise is not a 50€(with todays game prices, 80€) loss for the company. On the other hand there are games that i pirated first because i wasnt sure it would be worth it for me to buy it and then actually bought it when i decided it would be fun to play and wanted to support the company.
I got into the Age of Wonders franchise through a burned disc by our upstairs neighbour as a child. I have bought every game (except planetfall) in that franchise by now. I’d probably never have tried that game without said burned disc
That’s the same way I was introduced to Half Life. Valve has made that money back 1000 fold
169,999,930. I was never gonna buy that zelda game anyways. So no money was lost.
How much is that in increased sales due to piracy?
https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537
Hey FBI thanks for letting me know about nsw2u cc I had no idea this thing existed…but now I do, so thank you.
seriously though I use the megathread and it has quite literally everything. literally the only good thing to come from reddit.
What losses? Why do these people assume that pirates were ever going to purchase the goods they pirated?
Especially Nintendo. I wouldn’t be surprised if Nintendo is less affected by piracy than games on PC just because of the barrier to entry to even be able to purchase a Nintendo game with the console being first required.
And Nintendo is the most expensive console too with how sales are so rare for their exclusives compared to the other consoles, so likely not even on the radar for pirates who are already looking to not spend money. Console doesn’t award even patient gaming with games not dropping much even after years go by for their exclusives.
Do they only target torrent sites or something? Because there’s places that have been around for decades that are still up and fine.
TPB is basically immortal. Any instance taken down can be back up in minutes. It’s a game of whack-a-mole you can never win.
Seems that way now, but just imagine AI… Once we ChatGPT our investigations, the pirates will all be caught so super-fast. Give us money, please.
Yeah, there’s dozens of mirrors up at all times
No. The one they are talking about seizing most recently served torrents, but also had direct file listings to ROMs.
Usually just fools from the USA hosting within the USA under their real names and payment information.
