7th June 2003, 4:56 PM
Hmm, yes that's right I forgot about the price issue! That DOES explain why they are actually making such an effort against European importing specifically and nothing against American or Japanese importing.
I'll bet the retailers don't stop though. I think it'll be hilarious to see how on Earth Nintendo actually manages to find a legal excuse to sue the guys. Then again, Sony had no actual legal grounds against Bleem but still sued them repeatedly to bring them under due to legal fees alone. Perhaps that will be Nintendo's strategy, but I think all the bad press plus Nintendo's own expenses would cost them more than what the sales of their very overpriced games would get them.
I'll bet the retailers don't stop though. I think it'll be hilarious to see how on Earth Nintendo actually manages to find a legal excuse to sue the guys. Then again, Sony had no actual legal grounds against Bleem but still sued them repeatedly to bring them under due to legal fees alone. Perhaps that will be Nintendo's strategy, but I think all the bad press plus Nintendo's own expenses would cost them more than what the sales of their very overpriced games would get them.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)