Piracy Sadly Hits the Virtual Console

[hypochondriac]

The wii is primarily a family console. Only hardcore gamers are going to bother with all this. I predict it will have a very tiny impact yet the wii will continue to sell extremely well.

[kingslime80]

I hope your right Hypo.

[____anders____]

yeah, it's not going to affect N that much imo.. but i think that theyr'e going to patch this anyway...
and there goes TP hack down

[OHMYGAWD]

ty vc piracy

[sleekgeek]

man some of you kids are huge d-bags and/or simply ignorant. nintendo makes $100 PURE PROFIT on each console sold and they have sold millions! VC games should be free from the start.

you kids crying about developers not getting paid... wtf are you talking about? this isn't atari 2600 it's the wii. the developers get $80K a year starting pay backed by muti-billion dollar publishers. nobody is starving. these are the companies that make games for money not your enjoyment. that is why 9/10 games on the wii are mini-game crap.

oh noes nintendo might patch your homebrew so you have to buy that $40 tetris disc instead of downloading it and taking money away from the publisher. you wont beable to play your pirated roms that the big n hunts little websties down for.

simply don't update. the machine is hacked now so there will always be a workaround. if you kids want homebrew go buy a PSP.

in other news this is great. just a step towards having another totally opened console.

[tehnoir]

man some of you kids are huge d-bags and/or simply ignorant. nintendo makes $100 PURE PROFIT on each console sold and they have sold millions! VC games should be free from the start.

Pure profit after what has been figured in? Hardware costs? The cost of R&D? The costs associated with running such a large company? Costs associated with licensing?
And why should VC games be free? Granted, they're older games, but it still takes time, work and money to code them to run on a Wii. It's capitalism. Whatever profits Nintendo makes, they are entitled to. If you don't agree with capitalism, don't participate.

[kingslime80]

Sleekgeek, it is YOU who is the "d-bag". First, how can ANY company make 100% profit off of ANY console? There's materials, labor, development costs, PROGRAMMING, thus any console that makes more then 50% profit is very lucky. Remember the VirtualBoy? And an 80k STARTING salary? Maybe in Yen. ESPECIALLY since Nintendo was not far from BANKRUPTCY recently. I FULLY support HOMEBREW, but when you start talking custom firmware, you start talking about people screwing up their machines and putting themselves on Nintendo's radar. You shine THAT big of a light on homebrew and nintendo will likely shut down what I view as the only true quality site for homebrew in the first place. Sure there may be others, but none as good. Now please people, stop talking out of your @$$ before that happens.

I've been a lifelong Nintendo supporter, and YES, the VC should have been free in the first place, but be realistic. That won't happen. I support fun games, fun times, good story in RPGs and the only true gaming company left on the market. You want custom Firmware, go brick your own machine like a good little d-bag, just don't come crying to me when the firmware makes any decent games unplayable.

Leave those of us who want fun that's affordable have ours, and I'll let you do what you want, but don't get us shut down.

[Jay6]

nintendo makes $100 PURE PROFIT on each console sold and they have sold millions!

First, how can ANY company make 100% profit off of ANY console?

I see what you did there... you misread it.
And I don't support piracy. I'd rather pay for my games if I can get them... and if you already own a game that has been made into a VC game, then simply don't buy the VC game because you already own it. Unless you want to play that game on your Wii, then you'll have to fork over a little bit of money. $5 to $12 for a decently good old game isn't bad. Where else can you find a copy Harvest Moon for $8? Or Super Metroid? Of course, there are plenty of crappy games on the VC... and if you don't want to pay for crap, then don't buy it.

[tehnoir]

Heh, I misread it as 100% at first and was glad I caught myself before replying