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Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

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Re: Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

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Post by dmix »

dleslie wrote: post #8
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.

Yep, these types of Chinese preloaded consoles have been around for years now. I doubt the few thousand dollars Soulja Boy makes re-selling these will be of much interest to anyone.

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Post by izzydata »

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 is no chance of this when Sony and Nintendo are releasing their own retro mini consoles.

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Post by dec0dedab0de »

dleslie wrote: post #8
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.

My local mall had something similar for sale at a kiosk. I was shocked that nobody checks to see if what they're selling is legal. The mall is owned by Macerich a company that owns a ton of malls all over the place.

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Post by paulpauper »

baldfat wrote: post #9

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.

reminds me of a joke: the only things you cannot draw are Mohammad and Disney characters

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Post by dleslie »

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #13
dleslie wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My local mall had something similar for sale at a kiosk. I was shocked that nobody checks to see if what they're selling is legal. The mall is owned by Macerich a company that owns a ton of malls all over the place.

Counterfeit items aren't a new thing; these are to video games as knock-off Prada bags are to fashion.

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Post by kozak »

Off-brand game consoles with preloaded pirated games exist for a long long time. They actually make me somewhat nostalgic for early 90s, when they were ubiquitous in my country. Maybe in first-world countries (where original consoles are being officially distributed) they are exotic, but definitely not everywhere.

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Post by azinman2 »

fb03 wrote: post #16

I would sincerely love to know how he got this idea. I mean, he is a renowned musician. Why would he out of nowhere sell something that reeks of piracy and can get him into problems? I fail to understand.

Guessing someone offered to do all the work if he lent his name. Probably his previous money has run out...

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Post by lotsofpulp »

dleslie wrote: post #8
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.

That's not being sold by Best Buy, it says "sold by CC Trading Bridge".
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