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发帖数: 19309 | 1 Nintendo: piracy not behind poor sales News
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News by Fred Dutton
Today 19:27
Nintendo has refused to attribute low sales of Wii and DS games solely to
piracy.
In a recent investor call, CEO Satoru Iwata explained, "I do not think we
should attribute bad software sales solely to piracy.
"Even with piracy, as long as we can create products which can attract
attention from many consumers and which can greatly entertain them, that
software can make it to the number one position of the hit software sales
chart.
"So, we would like to consider it from both perspectives simultaneously. It
is true there is always the influence of piracy, but it is important for us
to increase the number of our consumers who are willing to shell out their
money to purchase our products."
Maybe he's onto something. The phenomenal Super Mario Galaxy 2 shifted 4.09
million copies in its first five weeks on sale. Pokémon Black/White, which
recently secured a perfect 40/40 from Famitsu, is rapidly approaching a
similar figure in Japan alone.
Then again, maybe he's not. The excellent Metroid: Other M failed to trouble
the UK all formats top 10 when it launched last month.
Iwata went on to re-emphasise that Nintendo will be making new efforts to
tackle piracy on its forthcoming handheld, the 3DS.
"Of course, as a responsibility of the platform holder, we will tackle
piracy. For example, when we launch new hardware, such as Nintendo 3DS, it
is a good opportunity to beef up the countermeasures, and we are actually
working on that now."
The 3DS launches in Japan on 26th February 2011 before heading to Europe and
the USA shortly thereafter.
Nintendo's next big releases include Donkey Kong Country Returns, arriving
on Wii on 3rd December, and Golden Sun: Dark Dawn for the DS a week later. | l******n
发帖数: 11737 | 2 他说的很对。要不是盗版的话，别说游戏了，他家靠硬件挣钱都没以前容易了。。。 |
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