12,000 consoles … for an estimated value of more than 47.5 million euros.
Each console costs 40 grand? 
It's hilarious when they apply the same math they use to calculate the worth of drug busts to something like this
Software licensing. For games you literally can't buy anymore in most cases.
They probably have 1000 games on each console that you can select from in a list and they're pricing based on that. Ridiculous.
Black Book of Cummunism-ass "math"
Around 12,000 consoles with 47 million games
No. That is incorrect. Each console had a few thousand games, and you did bullshit math to make that sound worse. Each copy of a rom does not count as an individual video game, that’s an insane way to measure things.
10 grams of Mario would be worth 50k on the streets according to Cop Math™️
Like, this would mean that if I took a rom for Super Mario Bros and hit ctrl-c ctrl-v 10,000 times you could say I have 10,000 video games. Thats insanity.
I'm pretty sure Nintendo's lawyer ghouls would argue you just described illegally producing 10,000 illegal copies of SMB and would need to be punished accordingly
Infinite crime.
Which is why Nintendo’s lawyers deserve 
Hell, most lawyers in general, but especially IP lawyers.
I'm freebasing Mario Sunshine, fuck the police.
Going into a Fluddhole
But what about those Famicom cassettes on which it is written "9999999 games in 1!"?
What is the charge?
Enjoying a game? Enjoying a succulent Chinese retro game?
The most diabolical of crimes: copyright infringement
Why crack down on people traffickers when you can take down some video game smugglers instead
People aren't eating counterfeit Sega Saturns before they board a plane from China, some Italians were presumably just ordering retro emulation devices in bulk from China
I'm sure the wealthy kulaks that hoard retro video games and sell them at collector prices will be pleased.
"Don Cicio! The bootleg game consoles have been seized by la carabinieri!"
Mario sleeps with the fishes.
Nice!
Braver than the troops
thank god! i don't know how many nights of sleep have been lost over that whole fiasco. the amount of profits that some non-existing companies probably could have missed out on is unthinkable
I wonder if these were some sort of fake NES/SNES/Mega Drive minis or just handheld emulation devices in general
the most common ones i've seen are
1: game boy that is actually an NES emulator with 999 games on it (with a usb port you can plug a fake NES controller into and play 2P)
and 2: the bar/coffee shop version which is a small arcade machine with two sticks and two buttons and is usually an NES or SNES emulator with a game selection screen. this one sometimes has qr codes to scan and pay with weixin/alipay before you can play
The Anbernic/Retroid/etc generic emulation devices should be completely safe if they dropped the bundled roms, but on the other hand I suspect those sd cards are a big reason why the devices sell in the first place
first they came for the Gamers...
Real Rebels of the Neon God moment
Lmao what a waste of resources for emulators
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