The longer list of Japanese publishers against the R4

By Spencer . July 29, 2008 . 5:54pm

The longer list of Japanese publishers against the R4 images Nintendo has had enough of the R4. While the flashcard has positive purposes like homebrew, Nintendo and 54 other publishers believe the device threatens software sales in Japan. A newly submitted court order demands companies cease sales and distribution of the R4 in Japan. You would think every publisher and developer working on DS games in Japan would join the suit, but only 54 third parties are on the ticket. Twenty four of them are specifically named and they are:

Arc System Works

IE Institute

Atlus

Arika

SNK Playmore

Capcom

Creative Core

Koei

Cyberfront

Jaleco

Square Enix

Sega

Taito

Takara Tomy

D3 Publisher

Tecmo

Digital Kids (Ubisoft Nagoya)

Hudson

Bandai Namco

Pokemon Company

Yuke’s

Red Entertainment

Level Five

Rocket Company

Hudson, but not their parent company Konami? They’re probably one of the 30 companies not named. I’m curious to know which publishers aren’t part of the ruling, but I don’t think we’ll ever find out unless someone tracks down a complete third party list. This is probably obvious since the court order was filed in Japan, but the ruling, regardless of the decision, will only affect Japan.

Images courtesy of R4 Team.

TAGS: Nintendo, Nintendo DS

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Aoshi00

So they sell these R4 cards openly in Japan too? Never used one, my friend asked me if I wanted one when she traveled to Hong Kong but she said it was discontinued or something.. I'm not too tech savvy anyway and never knew how to downgrade the PSP firmware.

Importing DS games at $50 a piece could indeed drive a man poor, I usually wait patiently in hopes of a sale.

Spencer

@Aoshi00 - I saw signs, paper signs, in Akihabara where retailers were advertising R4 cards. Things may have changed, but at one time it was pretty easy to get your hands on a flash card.

Nika

it is pretty easy to get your hands on one outside of japan aswell. especially if you consider buying one on the internet.

I understand that importing at such a price drives one poor, but personally I still think that actually having the box and cd/cartridge is much better then just a bit of data. it feels much more real. Still that doesn't take away the fact that I think that games are much to expensive, especially in europe.

as for importing, I think you neede a personal contact if you want to keep doing that, if you import through webstores it costs a lot, but if someone could simply send somthing by mail to you, it would probably cost a lot less, especially if you consider that a lot of games can be found second hand for less then 2000yen. and I've seen them as cheap as 200yen

Whorl

Funny as how R4 is only one of the many types out there.

CriticalFury

i'm glad i bought one when i did. best money ever spent.

Anyw

I dont think R4 is tht bad, i mean with R4 we can play the games that ONLY release in Japan AND the game that will NEVER be released in our country. It give other people to enjoy those games that they probably will never had a chance to play.So i really support R4.