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Nintendo To Sell Old Consoles To China?
drfishy writes "An interview with Nintendo president Satoru Iwata on IGN hints at the possibility of Nintendo entering the Chinese market with their products soon. The most curious part of the interview is that Satoru Iwata says Nintendo is considering releasing older generation hardware to combat piracy, could this mean the big N is going to start making Super Nintendos again? Will there be new games? How would this fight piracy?"
the single most nintarded idea I've ever heard
... cause it's so easy to copy a GameCube Game.
Jayysn
There is a war going on for your mind.
We all know how much harder a 32mb prom image is to toss around the internet than a 640mb sorta-but-not-quite-ISO cd image.
GameBoy emulation on the Sharp Zaurus helps keep my sanity through certain classes <cough fake="true">English</cough>
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to think about the children in underdevelopment countries. I'm sure my nephew in China will dump his PS2 once he could have given chance to taste the power of.....an old Nintendo. The Nintendo emulator on his dual Athlon-MP 2600 definitely can't compare to a real one. However Mr. Iwata must take into consideration whether there's enough electricity to power up one Nintendo there, because people are still using dynamo to power up lightblubs.
Exactly what parallel universe is Mr. Satoru Iwata living in?
Using older game consoles such as N64 and even SNES/SFC enables schools, particularly in rural areas, to immediately gain the benefits of technology without the cost and maintainence expense associated with traditional PC platforms. We look forward to seeing the results of this experiment in China, and will likely expand to other developing countries if it goes well.
-- Samir Gupta, Ph. D. Head, New Technology Research Group, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Kyoto, Japan.
Think about it... suppose they re-release the SNES over there.
Now, think back to the days when *you* were playing SNES. Suppose consoles as powerful as the XBOX, PS2, and GameCube were available elsewhere in the world but they weren't available to you, thanks to your government.
Holy crap! I'd be plotting to overthrown that bastard in a minute!
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If you wanna pirate, that's your call - but don't call it anything else.
I'll keep that in mind... if I want to commit robbery at sea, I'll make sure to refer to it as piracy.
Lex orandi, lex credendi.
Wow man, your English is short of the mark even by /. standards. I'm impressed.
Simple...Chinese waters have a high incidence of piracy because young Chinese men haven't Nintendo to occupy their time. We should applaud Nintendo for their efforts to combat crime. We should also hope that they will begin actively marketing their products in other unstable parts of the world, including Israel and the Arab states, where young men likewise have little to do but hate and kill one another. What works against piracy will surely work against terror as well. Praise to Nintendo!
I heard some years ago (in the late 1990s) that someone was still manufacturing Commodore 64s for sale in China (or possibly Latin America), where few people could afford modern computers. Anyone know anything about this?
If they're making C64s for mass use these days, how closely are they keeping to the original designs, and how many cheap-enough improvements have they added? Are they building them all on one chip, or using the original small-denomination RAM chips? Do they have any funky modern enhancements, like ZIP drives which pretend to be 1541s or integrated USB ports/IP stacks or whatever?
I think the only major Nintendo console not being produced in one form or another is the N64. What about the Virtual Boy? Tee hee.