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Apparently, Nintendo and their lawyers have 'asked' them not to continue selling games / software / hardware that should not be for sale in countries other than Japan and the US!
TQ Games, quite obviously, do not have the financial backing to fight this sort of demand and therefore have had to close.
Looks like Nintendo really are cracking down on the importers!
Get these things while you can or you may be disappointed.
P.S - I got my Platinum Wavebid from Lik-Sang.com in the end, GREAT SITE!
> You find a Platinum Wavebird on e-bay and I'll eat my hat (my N64 hat
> of course)!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&item=3027590273&category=20389
Muppet.
> (Then again, I'm feeling quite cynical right now :^) )
speaking of it *cough* cyclical which is a differenet ting suggests that once nintendo takes out the import companies. Other sectors will be affected e.g. the saels abroad which belongs to the importers. A large percentage of sales in USA and Japan example would go down and then it would follow. Based on Cyclical theory from economics
Not sure whether they'd have a case with Datel or not, who knows?
> Why haven't they taken Datel to court yet ??
Because Datel have the money to fight them, and Ninty, in my opinion, don't have a strong case.
It's like the playground bully backing down from fighting someone half way to being 'hard'.
Still, we like to think of Ninty as being a 'nice' company, as loyal to the fans as most are to them.
I'm starting to think they're probably just as bad as Sony and Microsoft.
They've been done for price fixing in the golden days of the SNES by the EU, and now by forcing people to pay for over-priced European games instead of fairly priced stuff from abroad, they seem to be doing the same thing - it's fixing their European prices. Simple.
I know, company, make money. But there's making money using honest methods, then there's making money using unfair manipulation of markets and general dishonest and disreaspectful price-rigging.
Maybe my loyalty is misplaced.
Why haven't they taken Datel to court yet ??
> You forget. Yes, sites are slowly shutting down, but hello, eBay!
>
> Y'know, the site where people buy the software/hardware/water balloons
> themselves and then sell them.
>
> Yes.
You find a Platinum Wavebird on e-bay and I'll eat my hat (my N64 hat of course)!
Y'know, the site where people buy the software/hardware/water balloons themselves and then sell them.
Yes.