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The line has expanded and now the GBA and GBA SP are available in China as well.

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I see that the GBA and GBA SP have the iQue logo instead of Nintendos. It also looks like the DS will have the iQue logo.

What's up with that?

Probably trying to distance themselves from the growing anti-Japanese sentiment in China. Nintendo is a very Japanese sounding name. iQue makes it sound more like an American company.

Yeah, 'cause everyone loves america.

specially China

Interesting. They went with the iQue because it was supposed to be near-impossible to pirate...
I was unaware that the GBA/GBASP was released there... I guess Nintendo decided that they might as well sell the extra hardware, even if the games probably don't sell all too well.

But the DS? I wonder if Nintendo is pretty confident on the copyright protection within the DS Software/Hardware...

I think software sales in the rest of the world will be good enough to allow for china to get their hands on it. Sony will never go to china cause PSP is already hacked to bits over here. I have personally seen someone play a game off a memory stick already. It crashed after three minutes, but it still played. That's not good for them. If they went to china that thing would get torn to shreds and it would be a financial bust. The DS is pretty damn solid security wise, and I'd love to see it in china cauase that would mean I would never have to worry about game demos cause they'd all be online before the games ever came out. I think that makes sense. I'm tired and am rambling but whateva.

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Probably trying to distance themselves from the growing anti-Japanese sentiment in China. Nintendo is a very Japanese sounding name. iQue makes it sound more like an American company.

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With GBA SP, DS and iQue player all over there and little else aren't they almost competing with themselves?

The name iQue is meant to sound chinese, apparently it has a meaning there.

I reckon it would sell well
After all its made in china
Even if there is a backlash at the moment towards japanese cause they have a distorted vision of the parst, It didnt stop korea from buying tons of playstation2 consoles

Most of that so called sentiment is goverment saber rattling. The Chinese Goverment want all the benfits of trade without being "comtaminated" by undesirable ideologies. Wishful thinking on thier part.

Chinas a mess on the inside and if Nintendo products will make the general population alittle happier, good for Nintendo.

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Most of that so called sentiment is goverment saber rattling.

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i find it funny that the DS is now everywhere while the PSP has yet to even enter Europe

I am not being uncaring about what did happen back in China, but having looked at what went down in europe during the same period, you would think that the rest of europe would still treat Germany a prison state full of undesireable Neo-Nazis. Japan can only say sorry so many times.

But if you look into it, it really boils down to the goverment. They lockdown the internet when ever someone anywhere posts anything negative about them. There is no free press. No alternative schooling where the course content is not dicated by the goverment.

But the entire situation is pretty one sided though. They expect everyone else to respect their patents while stealing everyone elses. Same with trade. Until the goverment over there changes, everyone will have the same problems exporting products to them.

But if Nintendo can atleast keep the DS secure from a secuity stand point, they should do fine. The entire anti-japanese thing is a non-issue to them considering they can't do jack all about it. Besids I don't think a front company would fool people for long.

But the entire situation is pretty one sided though. They expect everyone else to respect their patents while stealing everyone elses. Same with trade. Until the goverment over there changes, everyone will have the same problems exporting products to them.

Yep, that's the United states of America to you...

But seriously, the WIPO and WTO try to enforce US standards upon everybody while allowing the US to do anything they like. The world cannot be free until the WTO is dissolved. Humanity cannot be free of this disease known as "free market at all costs" until that organization is out of the way. Medical patents enforced upon third world nations that have millions dying because they can't afford the medicine? Genes patented despite being billions of years old? People put out of their jobs because some sweatshop in a third world nation can produce the stuff cheaper? Yes, the devil walks the Earth and he is laughing.

No political debate happening here! Move along, citizen, there is nothing for you to see here.