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Stopping R4 chips sale on e-bay and Amazon did not help much in piracy

Friday, February 19th, 2010

The deal of Nintendo with the major online merchant sites such as and to stop the selling of has not done much to dampen the games’ piracy.

Piracy became easy with this chip. It goes into a cartridge slot of and through that illegal downloaded games is easily played on the console.

Last year in the month of May both and had agreed of changing the user policy in order to prevent the sale of modified chips on their sites.

, the managing director of Nintendo, said that the arrangement with the two retailing sites has not made much impact on the piracy front of the games.

After the introduction of R4 the company has seen a decline in the sales of the game sales. Though the two giant retailing websites is out of the picture, but still some smaller online retailers have been trying to make easy and fast cash by selling the modified chips.

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DS, the fastest console sale in Australia

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

The sale of is now the fastest console in the country. It has reached the 2 million unit mark there. It beats both its handheld competitors and also all three major .

includes , and Nintendo DSi. The figure of 2 million has been announced.

The results has been issued by independent market research company GfK Retail and Technology. The huge success of Nintendo is now confirmed as the fastest selling console that has reached the impressive milestone.

The statistics of GfK proofs that the reached the milestone in only 221 weeks. It also gives evidence that for the last three years the has been number one selling console in .

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