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Nintendo Asks For Government Help To Fight Piracy
Nintendo, in its annual report to the USPTO, has requested help in dealing with piracy overseas, both from the US government and from several other countries in particular. China, Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, and Paraguay are listed as the greatest contributing nations to piracy of the company's products. Nintendo suggests, for example, that "Chinese customs officials must stop shipments of game copiers and other infringing products out of China, and China should work in the coming year to eliminate barriers to its enforcement laws," and that "the Spanish government implement laws protecting the creative copyright industry and enact laws against Internet piracy."
I know, but my actions don't result in lost sales since I don't even play the games when they are free, I would definitely not buy and play any games costing the amount of money they cost now.
They're not blaming you specifically you know.
It's available in all countries where there is worthwhile profit to be made compared to the costs of distribution and localisation though so where piracy is going to happen and MS' anti-piracy technology is going to be worthless there's no real money to be made anyway for the most part.
Playing a game for free that can't even be bought in your country will not cause the games industry to die, so get over it.