90% DS Games Pirated!?

[Gamer]

Up to 90 percent of North American Nintendo DS owners are believed to be using the infamous R4 chip to play pirated games, according to the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association.

News: 90% of US DS games are pirated - ComputerAndVideoGames.com

That can't be right...

[Cryoma]

True that.

[Hatsumi]

Off the top of my head, I can think of about twenty people that I know personally who have a DS. Not a single one of us has the R4 thing. Based on this 90% number, the probability of my knowing that many people in the lower 10% is REALLY low. This new math is really something... lol

[NeoGamer]

hum... 90% is pretty high! o.o I don't think it's that high a number, but maybe a 70%... Having a R4 doesn't mean that you only play pirated games... I know some people that have the R4 just to try the new games and then decide if it's worth buying. And even in Japan the R4 in always out of stock in many akiba stores. Flash Carts become more popular as the DS titles flood continues, it will just grow, i think... unless Nintendo do some great stuff with that DS demos thing on the Wii

[Gamer]

Ok well we've proven pretty quickly it's complete bullshit. I might believe this if they said Hong Kong but USA wtf.

[Cryoma]

It's a lot different in Japan.

[Jobocan]

Well that statistic is a bit high, 90% is definitely wrong, but still there's a lot of people in the US using R4/M3 and stuff like that because it's so easy to use, and DS roms are easy to find.
It's not a complicated(and slightly "dangerous") process like hacking a PSP(well, at least it was complicated before, don't know how it is now).

[lilazn52592]

It's a bunch of bull >_>.

[Lors]

Originally Posted by Jobocan

Well that statistic is a bit high, 90% is definitely wrong, but still there's a lot of people in the US using R4/M3 and stuff like that because it's so easy to use, and DS roms are easy to find.
It's not a complicated(and slightly "dangerous") process like hacking a PSP(well, at least it was complicated before, don't know how it is now).

With the DS-lite there was actually some risk of bricking it or the battery exploding.


90% sure is nonsense.. Nintendo's sales would plummit if that were true, and we would defenitely see that in the sale-charts.

Maybe they did a quick test on, say, 10 people or so who just happened to be in the rom-bizznizz.

[Hatsumi]

Via Game|Life:

ELSPA distances itself from DS piracy report // GamesIndustry.biz

"ELSPA would never presume to comment about America" - spokesperson

Yay, we're not all evil~! Shhh... Don't tell! lol