Nintendo Ds: Nintendo Scares Retailers Stocking R4 Cartridges

 
Numerous stores throughout Akihabara, Japan are notifying potential customers that they’ll no longer be selling R4 carts.
Unsurprisingly Nintendo have come down like a mighty ton of bricks on Japanese retailers caught selling the infamous R4 cartridge, in turn this has seen many of the stores displaying notification signs stating they no longer stock the prominent [...]

Nintendo: Piracy Costs Nintendo $1 Billion A Year

Those iniquitous gaming pirates are costing Nintendo and its publishers/developers an estimated 1 billion dollars a year.
The behemoth gaming company is requesting that U.S. Trade Representatives crack down on the ever growing list of countries seen as a threat to its profit margins.
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Nintendo Ds: 90% Of US Gamers Playing Pirated Nintendo DS Software

 
UK trade body ELSPA has sensationally claimed that 90% of DS gamers in the United States 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… you may think you’re getting a good deal but using the R4 [...]