12,000 consoles … for an estimated value of more than 47.5 million euros.
Each console costs 40 grand? 
It's hilarious when they apply the same math they use to calculate the worth of drug busts to something like this
Software licensing. For games you literally can't buy anymore in most cases.
They probably have 1000 games on each console that you can select from in a list and they're pricing based on that. Ridiculous.
Black Book of Cummunism-ass "math"
What is the charge?
Enjoying a game? Enjoying a succulent Chinese retro game?
The most diabolical of crimes: copyright infringement
Italy still mad that China has evidence of inventing noodles first
Iirc remains of fast food bars which most likely served noodles were found even in ancient Troy, ancient Rome definitely had those too, but the Italians went backward so much they even have a legend that Marco Polo brought noodles from China. In reality noodles in Italia most likely appeared by the same route as everything else in antiquity, from Greeks (often with Etruscan middlemanning).
Around 12,000 consoles with 47 million games
No. That is incorrect. Each console had a few thousand games, and you did bullshit math to make that sound worse. Each copy of a rom does not count as an individual video game, that’s an insane way to measure things.
10 grams of Mario would be worth 50k on the streets according to Cop Math™️
Like, this would mean that if I took a rom for Super Mario Bros and hit ctrl-c ctrl-v 10,000 times you could say I have 10,000 video games. Thats insanity.
I'm pretty sure Nintendo's lawyer ghouls would argue you just described illegally producing 10,000 illegal copies of SMB and would need to be punished accordingly
Infinite crime.
Which is why Nintendo’s lawyers deserve 
Hell, most lawyers in general, but especially IP lawyers.
I'm freebasing Mario Sunshine, fuck the police.
Going into a Fluddhole
But what about those Famicom cassettes on which it is written "9999999 games in 1!"?
Why crack down on people traffickers when you can take down some video game smugglers instead
People aren't eating counterfeit Sega Saturns before they board a plane from China, some Italians were presumably just ordering retro emulation devices in bulk from China
Anbernic is fine. They don't directly ship roms on cards. They probably got a bunch of those cheap ESP32 8bit devices that come loaded with every NES game. Fuck Italy and fuck IP law. I'm not a Chomsky fan but he is right about IP. It's a tool used to supress industry in the global south.
I'm pretty sure they do ship sd cards with roms though, unless it's the resellers on AE who supply those
It's resellers. Anbernic insulated themselves a few years ago.
Didn't they just have a bit of a controversy over the summer where they were going to start preloading their Linux-based consoles with Portmaster ports?
The way it's supposed to work is that you supply the game files yourself the way the Super Mario 64 PC port does it
From what I understand Anbernic was about to just add the games already ported which caused the retro emulation scene to beg them not to do it
I'm sure the wealthy kulaks that hoard retro video games and sell them at collector prices will be pleased.
Nintendo loves to sell overpriced retro nostalgia crap, like mini-consoles that have laughably few games and forcibly cram in Ice Climbers as one of the few offerings.
I think the age of the retro mini console is over, it's all about subscription services now
I think the age of the retro mini console is over
it's all about subscription services now
How about... cloud-based subscription services?
Pretty sure that's Sony's approach to their back catalogue
Oh boy more shit that will vanish the moment a suit feels like it! :AgonyRossScott:
I'm going to become one of those great reset guys except about cloud gaming
Probably end of consoles in general at this point.
"Don Cicio! The bootleg game consoles have been seized by la carabinieri!"
Mario sleeps with the fishes.
Nice!
thank god! i don't know how many nights of sleep have been lost over that whole fiasco. the amount of profits that some non-existing companies probably could have missed out on is unthinkable
Braver than the troops
I wonder if these were some sort of fake NES/SNES/Mega Drive minis or just handheld emulation devices in general
the most common ones i've seen are
1: game boy that is actually an NES emulator with 999 games on it (with a usb port you can plug a fake NES controller into and play 2P)
and 2: the bar/coffee shop version which is a small arcade machine with two sticks and two buttons and is usually an NES or SNES emulator with a game selection screen. this one sometimes has qr codes to scan and pay with weixin/alipay before you can play
The Anbernic/Retroid/etc generic emulation devices should be completely safe if they dropped the bundled roms, but on the other hand I suspect those sd cards are a big reason why the devices sell in the first place
first they came for the Gamers...
Lmao what a waste of resources for emulators
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