Every now and then, news comes along that just makes you chortle. Today’s post is one of those. Clearly, pirating is a rather profitable business. Music gets pirated, movies get pirated, and video games certainly get pirated. Sometimes, video game systems even get pirated — just ask the Vii. Typically these hacks have a [...]

Two interesting and semi-competing bits of news caught my eye today. To start, we go straight to Perrin Kaplin, VP of Marketing for Nintendo America. Ol’ Perrin says prior to Nintendo’s handsome new Wii system, gamers were starting to get “bored” by video game offerings — presumably including those of his own company. Kaplin claims [...]

Was there some kind of uprising regarding the price of the Wii which somehow escaped my ever-so-hawkish attention? I ask only because in my regular search for Wii news I’ve started encountering articles with headlines like “Nintendo Not Budging on Wii Price” (from Dealerscope) and “Nintendo Wii Price Will Be the Same” (from TechGadgets). It [...]