Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

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Post by mises » Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 3:15 PM UTC

Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles
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Post by swarnie_ » Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 3:52 PM UTC

These are just Alibaba emulators with ROMs preloaded right? How is he expecting not to get sued by every game dev and manufacturer from the last 30 years?

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Post by bonestamp2 » Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 3:56 PM UTC

800 preloaded games? The disregard for copyright is embarrassingly naive... usually the idea with selling something is to come out financially ahead in the end.

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Post by iseeyoubydesign » Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 4:02 PM UTC

swarnie_ wrote: post #2

These are just Alibaba emulators with ROMs preloaded right? How is he expecting not to get sued by every game dev and manufacturer from the last 30 years?

because the games are all from a few devs and they get a cut. This is too obvious to be this stupid. Take a look at this guy and ask yourself how hes been so successful. Hes crazy like a fox.

But well see, maybe hes finally went crazy.

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Post by balls187 » Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 4:04 PM UTC

swarnie_ wrote: post #2

These are just Alibaba emulators with ROMs preloaded right? How is he expecting not to get sued by every game dev and manufacturer from the last 30 years?

Perhaps he just rubber stamped the idea.

Or some suit somewhere told him it's okay.

Or he just doesn't care because he'd get a C&D first, comply and keep the profits.

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Post by sehugg » Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 4:05 PM UTC

Could just link to the original IGN article: https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/12/05/souljaboy-is-selling...

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Post by sct202 » Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 4:14 PM UTC

iseeyoubydesign wrote: post #4

swarnie_ wrote: post #2

These are just Alibaba emulators with ROMs preloaded right? How is he expecting not to get sued by every game dev and manufacturer from the last 30 years?

because the games are all from a few devs and they get a cut. This is too obvious to be this stupid. Take a look at this guy and ask yourself how hes been so successful. Hes crazy like a fox. But well see, maybe hes finally went crazy.

There's no way Nintendo would ever cut a deal.

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Post by dleslie » Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 4:25 PM UTC

bonestamp2 wrote: post #3

800 preloaded games? The disregard for copyright is embarrassingly naive... usually the idea with selling something is to come out financially ahead in the end.

Best Buy has been selling pirate retro consoles for months, with no action taken against them.

https://m.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/300-in-1-portable-retro-m...

And, of course, Amazon and Ali Baba have been selling them for ages.

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Post by baldfat » Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 4:37 PM UTC

The only thing I can think is I bet you he doesn't have anything copyrighted by Disney.

We really need to rethink our system where there will never be a time when games from Atari will become public domain.

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Post by brootstrap » Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 4:39 PM UTC

Youuuuuuuu - gotta be kidding me, this dude is a clown.