Technology has come so far that video game piracy as we know it from the 90's is a basically pointless venture. Rather than going through the enourmous hassle of remaking an SNES game on the NES (like Master Fighter, for example) they can just get hundreds of games from any console over 10 years old (sometimes newer, but not often) and just cram them onto whatever device they want for a tiny cost, really.
Ive seen tons of iPhone like clones that boast multiple games in one device. It's usually just an NES/Sega/whatever emulator built in, and theres usually less than a gig of drive space.. Yet still, Ive seen famicom pirates from 2004 and 2005, when this technology was already easily clonable and accessable.. I don't understand how they can expect to turn a profit from these famicom multicarts/bootlegs still today, really all they end up being is a waste of space, if it isn't a genuinely fun pirate. But I guess it still makes money in some corners of the world, cause they're STILL producing them.
I'd think it would cost less and sell more just to ditch the famicom crap altogether, and plop out more of these iPhone clones, but I suppose they just want to have all bases covered..
