Comments on: 90% of North American DS Owners Are Pirates, Claims ELSPA

By: Bruceongames

Bruceongames — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:35:04 +0000

We live in an age were many millions of people get away with stealing (6 million in the UK alone) . And they think nothing of it. They get all their entertainment for free. They download games, music and films at will.

By: Sinastus

Sinastus — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:03:41 +0000

This is the first time I’ve heard of this chip.

No interest in it either; I have all the games I want for the DS.

By: The Twin

The Twin — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:22:26 +0000

I have a DS, and I would *NEVER* pirate a game. I believe games should be cheap, or even free, and homebrews are great, but piracy is the wrong way to do so.

By: runemaster

runemaster — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:51:03 +0000

Good job – they obviously educated a lot of people that such a chip is in existance.

By: LaChandra

LaChandra — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:55:44 +0000

I also didn’t know about this chip. I may be one of the few in my area who actually buys there video games. I don’t own any illegal video games. Besides DS games aren’t that expensive compared to the non-handheld consoles so if you have to pirate it maybe you shouldn’t be playing games in the first place.

Save the pirating for the hundred dollar software like Photoshop and Windows.

By: Xboxlenny

Xboxlenny — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:15:15 +0000

yes i think many do pirate but there is more that dont know how or even know about the R4 or other similar devices. I like the CycloDS.

By: Chucks

Chucks — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:23:06 +0000

But how can one differentiate between Pirated games and original?

By: David-M

David-M — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:04:39 +0000

well, I believe that the industry is hyper-exagerating again. They claim 90% is using pirated games? How do they get that figure? ( Rhetorical question )

I think this such BS.

By: Zedblade

Zedblade — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:58:10 +0000

I have about 10 Ds games (all bought legit) and I’ve been thinking about buying a R4 chip to store all the games i own on a single chip for easier carrying. It’s a pain in the ass to walk around with so many DS cartdridges and the r4 chip would be a godsend.

I can bet you a lot of people have done the same thing, just becuase people own the Chip doesn’t meant they pirate.

By: Shawn Sines

Shawn Sines — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:34:39 +0000

I own 5 Ds’s and none of them are modded.. I think I just blew the statistics right there.

By: ManOfTeal

ManOfTeal — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:19:43 +0000

This is the first time I have ever heard of this R4 chip.

By: Jeff Williams

Jeff Williams — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:13:30 +0000

You have got to be kidding me. I am pretty into technology and never even heard of the chip. My kids know lots of people with DS’s and none of them have it. I guess we know the entire 10% that has no clue??

Come on? Maybe say 10% or something in that area. 90% of the people out there are not cheats to begin with. AND look at the figures for the game sales. You mean 10% of the people are buying that many copies of each game? The figures do not add up.

By: Hiroshi

Hiroshi — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:50:28 +0000

Oh BS, I highly doubt that 90% of ALL DS owners pirate DS games! For instance, I know about 20 people myself, who own DS’s, who don’t even know you can purchase an R4, let alone download and play games on it..

By: runemaster

runemaster — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:04:19 +0000

For the sake of discussion, let´s assume there actually are 90% R4 modded ds in north america – how are the software sales figures ? Does every evil pirate (who maybe likes to play homebrew stuff) really “steal” every game ? Or do people with modchips sometimes do still buy games ?

I have a modchip in my Xbox, i love XBMC and some emulators (yeah i´m evil for not buying a new SNES, and i´m evil too for not using an Xbox360 with LiveArcade and playing the 0,01% of games available on a machine that uses as much energy as a couple of SNES put together (does anybody know how much power a SNES uses ?)). Still i do have quite a few Xbox Originals (about 20), and that is only the rest that survived the upgrade to Xbox360. I bought my first Xbox modded, just in case you were wondering if i bought them before i bought my modchip.
And a lot of my games (80%) are from a canadian videogame exporter (i live in germany), i guess i´m the worst kind of evil since i don´t respect publisher rights to restrict content to a certain area of the world (and stripping the english version out of some games – even if they have spent far more money on the english syncronisation).
I really feel bad, poor, poor videogame industry. Software sales for consoles must be .. hey wait.

I think it is really important to point out, that stealing videogames is bad for your carma. But if they overdo it (and in my opinion there are more cases of them overreacting then being sensible), customers might not buy anything anymore out of protest. I would not buy an audio cd that won´t play in my car radio if it would be as cheap as a dollar – the music industry already has me on an “i record from radio or copy from a friend” trip. I prefer to go to a concert once or twice a month and be absolutly happy about it, at least until they make me sign a document to never hum the melody or get thrown into jail.

By: Dragon

Dragon — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:12:45 +0000

I know quite a few American DS owners and they all have an R4 or other similar means of playing downloaded ganes.

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:54:12 +0000

I can see moms playing with the R4. My girlfriend wanted a DS and when she got it i recommended R4 to her and set it up for her, then her bro wanted one of them and then her mom!