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Teriyaki Terrier
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That was certainly quick, I just commented on this issue yesterday.
Something tells me Nintendo (Not Nintendo of America, rather Nintendo of Japan) basically told Apple to take that app off their site or else repercussions would happen. We (the consumers) will never learn the whole truth, but I thinking that is what likely went down. |
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Sunday Silence
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Still no R/S/E remakes. GAME FREAK, YUNO DO DIS?
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Polycell
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At any rate, it's just as likely that the folks who do that sort of thing got back to work and noticed the hullabaloo over the thing and simply took it down of their own accord and launched an investigation to find out who gets disemployed(after all, Apple's bottom line is heavily dependent on perception). |
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TopGunman
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Call me old-fashioned but I don't like playing games on my iPhone/iPad/Smartphone, I prefer to use my GBA SP to play all the classics because at least I have connectivity with the Game Link Cable and these apps don't have connectivity at all. So you're more or less playing a game that you never will finish.
Never throw out or sell your old consoles unless updated versions can support their games COMPLETELY. |
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Haterater
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Nintendo and publicity of it all most certainly sped up the process to take it down. Apple just needs to polish on how to spot stuff like this so it doesn't happen more often. At least for the smaller games.
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Gilles Poitras
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Feh.
This is my preferred Nintendo game: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n09/hana-kabu_items/index.html Koi koi |
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baadaku12345
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It's coming, don't worry. The GSC remakes were only released 2 years ago. |
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shukero
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It really doesnt matter who asked for the take down, the fact that it even made it up onto the store, the fact that it went to the top of the lists, AND the fact that ti took apple over 24 hours to remove it leaves a pretty big stain on both Nintendo's and the iOS stores reps 
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Polycell
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How does it involve Nintendo's guys? They've got(or had, rather) little reason to ever look at the app store. Assuming any body made Nintendo aware of the matter, there's still precious little they could do. It's all on Apple's house.
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Defguru7777
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Kinda surprised it took them this long even. It was mentioned on multiple game new websites.
I agree completely. It's why I still have my GBA to play Game Boy Color games and my DS to play GBA games (I prefer to play them on the DS). And it's why I had such a problem with the DSes after the Lite. No GBA slot! Not only does that destroy backwards compatibility, obviously, but it also made whole add-ons for the DS useless (rumble pack, Guitar Hero add-on). |
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Team Rocket Elite
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Some people may have bought the game thinking it was an official game from Nintendo. This hurts Nintendo's reputation even though Nintendo has nothing to do with the game. |
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Hagaren Viper
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It makes me laugh that people bought this when all the screenshots seem to be from FireRed and LeafGreen... nothing wrong there.
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Polycell
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Sunday Silence
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It does prove that people want their media thru alternate means and how they want. Whether or not the companies will follow is best left for debate. |
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enurtsol
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From the Arts Technica website:
Apple's role How did such a a case of blatant IP theft get through the Apple's app review process? Quite easily, it seems. Apple doesn't appear to perform any sort of legal check before putting an app on the store, reviewing submitted apps primarily for technical issues. Instead, Apple relies on copyright holders to file a complaint once they notice the app is already on the store. It's a somewhat understandable position for Apple; doing a comprehensive copyright search for every submitted app would put a ridiculous strain on reviewers that are already wading through dozens of new submissions every day. And even if you'd think a reviewer should notice that a game like Pokemon belongs to Nintendo even without such a search, that reviewer would still have no way of knowing (and likely no time to check) if House of Anime is an official licensee for the iOS version of the game. And therein, perhaps, lies the lesson in all this for Nintendo. If even a broken, unlicensed version of a decades-old Pokemon game can make it to the third position on the iOS App Store over the course of a weekend, imagine what a sensation a real, new Pokemon game would be on Apple's devices. Sure, it might cost Nintendo a few 3DS hardware sales, but why continue to struggle building an audience for your own mobile platform when Apple already has an established device with an audience that's obviously desperate for your software. In other words, why continue to try and beat the IP thieves when you can, instead, join them? |
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