Good to see a positive response from the news article, and SimplyGames admit the damage this does to the industry and act in a proactive manner. Piracy will hurt us all in the long term - better to react like this in order to serve the interests of the industry rather than making a quick buck and contribute to its detriment.
Lets hope the rest follow.....good work MCV.

Fair play to you Neil. Actions do speak louder than words. Its over to Amazon now. Interestingly, I notice that the marketplace companies offering the item are electronics stores not games retailers. They don't give a monkeys about piracy because they don't sell the games anyway. Just a fast buck in their eyes

A good decision and not before time. All we have to do now is tackle the online auction sites and the hundreds of other shops and web stores that sell them. The R4 card is killing the retail sales of DS games and it is probably too late to stop the rot.

If retailers can't sell genuine DS games the publishers and developers going to make any money?

What the frig were Simply Games selling them anyway!

They knew perfectly well what they were for,

Industry: These clowns have done immeasurable damage to the DS and have fuelled piracy, dont forgive them in a flash! (no pun intended!)

@ 4 - the answer is in the article if you actually read it.

Yeah great move, force all the business to go on auction sites!

How pointless...

Also who on earth are simplygames.com? Some generic template online retailer? Never heard of them.

I thnik its worth pointing out that while these cards are obviously doing damage to the market, they are not alone in the drop of DS games sales. A quick look at some of the **** on offer in most stores should also be noted.

Im certainly not agreeing with the use of these cards in anyway ... just thought its worth remembering that anytime Nintendo or anyone else mentions DS game sales as a little quality control on Nintendo's end wouldn't hurt.

What a cop out excuse for stocking R4's in the first place, "because amazon sell them then so did we"
2 wrongs don't make a right. Well done for pulling the plug but the only reason Simply Games sold them in the first place was to make quick easy money at the expense of others.

"and I have talked openly to senior people at Nintendo UK about the situation."

get real, this guys spins like Tony Blair

I bet Nintendo put a rocket up his ar*e and within minutes he pulls the cards and offers this lame press release.

"and I have talked openly to senior people at Nintendo UK about the situation."

get real, this guys spins like Tony Blair

I bet Nintendo put a rocket up his ar*e and within minutes he pulls the cards and offers this lame press release.

I think he saw his DS sales dropping after he listed R4 cards and decided he was damaging his own business and no doubt Nintendo had words with him as well.

One retailer withdrawing these cards is to be praised but nevertheless it will have little impact. Put simply - it's too late. If people want these cards they are widely available from multiple sources.

Nintendo need to take leadership on this issue by coming out with a strong statement on this. To date they have been surprisingly quiet - perhaps they don't want to attract public attention to these devices ?

Nintendo need to look at a download business model for DS and also upgrading the DS Hardware to combat the problem.

Perhaps they already have plans to be announced at E3 ?

im afraid its all too little too late, Nintendo needs a firmware style update to lock out downloads like the firmware update on wii stopping the freeloaders.
Even our used ds games dont sell like they used to,
some of our customers dont even see downloading games as illegal, lee

The Wii firmware update only worked for 6 hours, then the hombrewers got around it. Firmware updates aren't doing much good.

Retailers charge far to much for NDS games, it's all your own fault that so many people have R4 cards, I've not a jot of sympathy for any of you scam merchants.

Yeah, we all run a fleet of Ferraris and smoke huge cubans which we light with fifty pound notes.

To be fair it's all because of development costs - if lazy ass developers pulled their fingers out instead of waiting for the Publishers to come in and delcare Crunch the dev costs would be lower and everyone could make some money.

Sadly - they're all too busy getting stone and posting on Eurogamer to give a toss about the latest games they're supposes to be making to look at the effect they're having on the retail price index.

In fact - developers are in no small way to blame for the rising cost of petrol.

Maybe someone could explain to me why DS games differ from *for example* PS2 games in the sense that when a piece of crap game came out for the PS2 it held its value for the first week and then plummetted down in price to attract customers as nobody was buying it.

So why then does a piece of crap DS game hold its £30 price tag for what seems like a lifetime? Something doesn't seem right.

Raw materials. It costs more to produce a cartridge than a DVD. Also, these games sell to most casual gamers based on the cover and theme rather than their quality.

Perhaps if games we not so expensive there would be no call for these cards, and what about the secondhand game market????
Is that next????

Nintendo wont do or say alot because it sells so many ds consoles, due to the fact that once purchased the games are free! hence every tom,dick and harry have one.
There are 3 in my house, was thinking of getting the cats one each too, they are that cheap to run.
What the game makers are trying to say is by downloading games, you are steeling some of their greedy profits, they probably still make millions, so we are just taking some back in my opinion.
Long live flash cards lets ALL have some cheap entertainment for a change!

http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/~buy-xanax-no-rx - xanax http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/~buy-tramadol-no-rx - tramadol http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/~buy-valium-online - valium http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=buy-ambien-online-without-prescription-buy-ambien-10mg-5mg - ambien http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=buy-xanax-online-buy-xanax-2mg-1mg - xanax http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=buy-fioricet-online-without-prescription-buy-fioricet-cod - fioricet http://connections.blackboard.com/people/50273d6fc2 - tamiflu http://tapestry.formos.com/wiki/display/~buy-tamiflu-winthout-prescription - tamiflu http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/CSB/view_profile.php?userid=5324 - ambien http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/~ativan4r5r - ativan http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/~buy-ambien-without-prescription - ambien
grasped computers prospect stance defend gravity quotients