26 November 07 - 08:01R4: The Napster of Nintendo's business model.

According to The Times, you can purchase an "R4 chip" and then get all manner of games for free! Nevermind that there's a burgeoning homebrew scene around the little device and that it's technically legal in the UK to make personal backups of game cartridges.

Naturally, they pull allusions to Napster (because they're thick) and then illogically start talking about other famous piracy devices (like the iTrip... I'm confused, too).

Oh, and don't forget the now-requisite China bashing:

The R4 is not the first time that China has exported the means of games piracy to the outside world. Games software is heavily pirated and available throughout Asia. However, the R4, said one industry analyst, takes games piracy into a new level.

Yes, the R4, unlike every other flash cart/mod chip ever made for any other console, brings piracy to a whole new level. It's massive now! Piracy on the deluxe! It can't be stopped! Nintendo's business model is doomed! Doomed, I say! So says this unnamed analyst.

The sinophobia is getting old, idiots -- China is lapping our asses at pretty much every educational, industrial, and technological opportunity. If the hardest we can compete is to get journalists to write about how they develop piracy devices, then holy shit we are fucked. Let's just learn Cantonese right now.

Seriously, if you're a journalist and you're a bit thick, don't bother writing anything about the games industry, piracy, computers, or really anything more advanced than a paper notebook and typewriter.

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