Nintendo's "Innovation" = Anti-Piracy

Wow!  A videogame system with only videogames!?  How crazy!

Piracy wouldn't run rampant on any platform because the majority of the consumers dont know or dont want to mod their Wii and play pirated games. :roll: 

If piracy ran rampant on Nintendo, they would go broke because games is all the have, so they make up stupid schemes like the ds' touchscreen and wiimote, combined with cheap, weak hardware to sell their games at lower prices than competitors and that is the main reason why stay in business...shadow8585

I would disagree with you...but I've already heard people complaining about being unable to play the new Pokemon rom twice in the last week (god knows why, but Pokemon is strangley popular amogst the 18 year-old jock crowd...).Planeforger

stealing Pokemon?  That is sad. 

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If piracy ran rampant on Nintendo, they would go broke because games is all the have, so they make up stupid schemes like the ds' touchscreen and wiimote, combined with cheap, weak hardware to sell their games at lower prices than competitors and that is the main reason why stay in business...shadow8585

Pitartes can pretty much work through the touch screen and wiimote, it's not really that hard. and as much of nintendo's cartridge based formats (Don't know about the Wii) are not region locked, playing pirated, imported, and homebrew games is actually usually easy on Nintendo's consoles, compared to the other consoles.

Cheap and weak? the Wii isn't the technological powerhouse that the PS3 and 360 are, but it provides a fun experience, which is why you play games on gaming sytems. On top of that, owning the rights to the 3rd most popular anime in Japan (and probably higher in America) Pokemon helps as well. They also make money off their consoles, unlike their competitors I will give you that their games are a huge part of their business, but when their games sell so much that they: cause plastic shortages, become the best selling games in both the packaged with a concole and unpackaged, and are acredited with being the best game of all time (Pokemon Ruby and Saphire, Super Mario Bros., Pokemon Blue, Legend of Zelda: OOT respectivly), can you really blame them? it'd be hard not to make a huge amount of money

If piracy ran rampant on Nintendo, they would go broke because games is all the have, so they make up stupid schemes like the ds' touchscreen and wiimote, combined with cheap, weak hardware to sell their games at lower prices than competitors and that is the main reason why stay in business...shadow8585

Stupid schemes like the DS? Snap into reality dude the DS is fun and the best handheld since the Gameboy and it's sales show that.

You can rant all day about weak hardware but you know what? Not everyone gives a crap about hardware specs and eye poppin visuals. If they did the Wii wouldnt be very popular.  

If piracy ran rampant on Nintendo, they would go broke because games is all the have, so they make up stupid schemes like the ds' touchscreen and wiimote, combined with cheap, weak hardware to sell their games at lower prices than competitors and that is the main reason why stay in business...shadow8585

Wii games have already been hacked. They sell them here fro 4 dollars each. As for the the DS, flash cards are rampant.

Nintendo suck at anti-piracy this gen. You can access Wifi on pirated DS games. o.o