A rather daring Chinese factory worker has managed to secure a shiny non-working Nintendo 3DS presumably from the outlet that’s producing the devices. I’d imagine Nintendo are sending out the ninja’s as I write this.
A rather daring Chinese factory worker has managed to secure a shiny non-working Nintendo 3DS presumably from the outlet that’s producing the devices. I’d imagine Nintendo are sending out the ninja’s as I write this.
Those ninjas are crazy, seriously…
Even before its official release date, March 2011. Lucky guy.
Non-working? Why would you want to steal one of those?
Anonymous internet fame, I suppose.
Plus, maybe he doesn’t work far enough down the production line to steal a fully finished product. …Or maybe he stole an unfinished one so it’d be harder to identify him as the culprit. Maybe he works on the last legs of the production line but stole it in a more raw state so all eyes would be driven to other parts of production that he’s nowhere near.
You mean Ninji’s, those little jumping dudes from Super Mario 2/USA.
That’s what they get for charging so much for it.
Non- Working…
FAIL.
Wow! He actually stole it! I bet he knew it wasn’t working … What if he can create something new for it? Like give it to Sony LOL!
When he got home he probably thought “I did all this for a NON-WORKING 3DS?!”
If any of you have not seen the full photo scans at nintendo3dsblog, some noteworthy tidbits:
1300 mAh battery (in comparison to DSi XL’s 1050 mAh)
Memory Mode 96 MB seen on a still of the 3DS screen when turned on. That might be the total MB without the operating system… or it’s a little more stacked than we thought. Time will tell.
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all i got to say is, lmfao! xD
Before people start saying FAIL and laughing, I would think about it.
I live in China, it is notorious for piracy and fake goods. They are as bold as brass when it comes to selling the stuff too. If you buy a console here you have to ask them NOT to chip it if you don’t want it done, otherwise it is done before you take it away, as well as asking you which games you would like burning to DVD.
Stores sell pirated games and movies, all on display for everyone to see and then there are all the street vendors. When it comes to copying a product, as in making a fake, it is equally as rampant. They are even making fake eggs here!!! Yes, FAKE EGGS!! They make them from various paints and chemicals. The reason behind that is it is quicker and cheaper than rearing hens and waiting for them to lay, unbelievable? Yes But still true!!
I would question why it was not actually working. Perhaps it is simply software that has not been written onto the system for example.
I seriously doubt this guy stole it without a VERY good reason. If he was a member of staff then I am pretty sure he would be aware of the state of the system he decided to take. Bet you anything it had everything he required on it and if I had to make a guess then I would have to think that it is currently stripped down to its individual components right now and being copied as we speak. That and looking at how to bypass any anti modding technology that it may have.
Put it this way, I bet you anything that it won’t be very long before we see some SD cards available which allow it to run pirated games and possibly a fake model being sold at a significantly lower cost.
The big console producers really don’t care about the fact that China does little to stop piracy. At the end of the day they can only sell the hardware in China if it has the ability to play pirated games as the average Chinese family simply cannot afford to pay the prices they charge for games. They are around the same price as anywhere else in the world and software developers do not take in to consideration the lower earning bracket that most people are in.
Console and handheld sales in China are skyrocket and people like Sony and Nintendo cannot afford to loose that amount of business, period. No matter what the game developers think about it.
run, chinese dude, run!