Nintendo blames piracy for large drop in European DS sales

yet more made up numbers

I think it's amazing the way piracy can make a company lose more than they have potential to make sans piracy.

lol in the same period there was about 9 games for the DS worth paying for or at least 9 that could be found buried in all the shovel ware companies like ubisoft crap out.

surprised they don't put gamestop on this list can't buy a game from them with out being nagged to buy a used title

I can't believe they are still selling games for that thing...I thought the only reason people bought the unit in the first place was for piracy...and even if all the games were free without piracy, I would not be willing to spend the money for the DS itself.

Nintendo needs to take a long look at what they are offering the publishers, what the publishers want, and what they can do to bridge the gap. The recent hardware improvements are nice, but the underlying hardware has been the same for ever, and it was not high-tech when it came out...there are not a whole lot of different game types you can do with the DS hardware, and most of the combinations have already been done...making all the new games feel just like the old ones.

maybe people are sick of paying £30 to £40 for a game that should cost no more than £10!

Originally posted by av_verbal:

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maybe people are sick of paying £30 to £40 for a game that should cost no more than £10!

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If it wasn't for the R4 I wouldn't have a DS at all. Well that and if I hadn't gotten the DS for free.

I don't know of a single game worth paying for the hardware and price of the game on the DS. They are all as gimicky and useless as the Wii.

Nintendo is a joke for anyone above the age of 12.

And how is piracy causing lower DS Hardware sales? If anything R4 and m# cards are helping hardware sales. The use of those cards are the ONLY reason I would buy a DS if I didn't have one.

But the above statements are also correct. The games are so stupid overpriced it makes me want to puke. There is no excuse to pay 30-40 dollars for games that are so limited and small (length and content small, not hardware small).

And the other poster up there is kind of right... These numbers may not be entirely made up but they are HEAVILY exagerated and vague. They include EVERY little thing they can squeeze into a catergory to make numbers look ginormous.

Piracy huh?...Oh yeah, and I guess the fact that they announce the NEW XD an then shortly after the development of the 3DS HAS NOTHING TO DO with deterring users from investing in a DS/and related games??

I have a DS but it's true, very few games are actually worth buying. The carts sell more units, because the games definitly dont.

And yeah, where are they getting these figures from? Proyections of what they had estimated to gain?? hahaha very, very, "best case scenario" proyections if you ask me...

Originally posted by spin54:

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If it wasn't for the R4 I wouldn't have a DS at all. Well that and if I hadn't gotten the DS for free.

I don't know of a single game worth paying for the hardware and price of the game on the DS. They are all as gimicky and useless as the Wii.

Nintendo is a joke for anyone above the age of 12.

And how is piracy causing lower DS Hardware sales? If anything R4 and m# cards are helping hardware sales. The use of those cards are the ONLY reason I would buy a DS if I didn't have one.

But the above statements are also correct. The games are so stupid overpriced it makes me want to puke. There is no excuse to pay 30-40 dollars for games that are so limited and small (length and content small, not hardware small).

And the other poster up there is kind of right... These numbers may not be entirely made up but they are HEAVILY exagerated and vague. They include EVERY little thing they can squeeze into a catergory to make numbers look ginormous.

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It's always price point and the economy that determine the amount of piracy for something popular. If the price is too high more piracy and hack’n, if the price is reasonable much fewer hacks and piracy. And that’s without spending millions for anti-piracy schemes.

Yup - piracy and sky high prices are a powerful combination for losing sales