Nintendo Upset Over Nokia Game Emulation Video 189
An anonymous reader writes "Nintendo is investigating potential copyright infringement by Nokia during some video demos of their N900 phone, which can be seen emulating Nintendo games. Nintendo spokesman Robert Saunders says: 'We take rigorous steps to protect our IP and our legal team will examine this to determine if any infringement has taken place.' In the video, Nokia says, 'Most publishers allow individual title usage, provided that the user is in possession of the original title.'"
Mario is Copyrighted? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Oh, Nokia.. (Score:4, Interesting)
Allow me to introduce you to the Nintendo Gateway System [panasonic.aero] for IFE's (In Flight Entertainment systems). Such systems have been in place on many airlines for some time now, this one is uses GameBoy roms but the one's I've used on Singapore Airlines used NES and SNES roms.
Nintendo aren't against emulation, they are all for it (after all the whole virtual console thing is emulation) they just want to sell it. Nintendo's problem isn't that the emulators exist it that they are competing commercially (I.E. Nokia wants to make money for itself by advertising Nintendo's products without permission).
MS and Sony are far more hostile to emulation, they just haven't been in the game long enough to be affected by it. MS has released 2 generations of console, Sony 3 generations whilst Nintendo have had 6 generations released.
Re:Dear Nintendo (Score:1, Interesting)
If you want to play old video games then $200 for a Wii is a lot less than $1500 for a full arcade cabinet with an original circuit board in it.
No-one if forcing you to buy anything. No-one is forcing you to pirate the games - except you.
You're the only one forcing yourself to do these things.
To take your argument to an extreme(*) - Sony are such dicks for not releasing their games for the XBox. Why should I have to buy a Playstation to play those games when I have an XBox already.
Why should I have to buy a PC to run Office when I already have an XBox. If it can play Resident Evil then it should be powerful enough to display sodding Clippy - and I know which is more evil(**).
(*) I don't own a Playstation or an XBox - I was just using it as an example.
(**) Clippy is more evil than anything in Resident Evil
Re:Still waiting for decent Pokemon iPhone app! (Score:2, Interesting)
since they are no longer interested in making any non-trival (DS, DS Lite, DSi, ...) changes to their existing outdated handheld gaming platform in more than 5 years since the original DS was launched in Nov 2004.
Actually it's pretty much been confirmed that Nintendo is working on a new handheld using Tegra technology.