seriously, the argument is so retarded , dont you people get it ,corporations are opportunistic pigs that will do anything to maximize profit, and especially the ones who make shovelware , since they have no reputation anyways,95% of them you never heard of , the bigger companies may think twice cause they dont want the bad rep ,although i doubt even the biggest ones have many standards,and they are guilty too,
and this argument some one posted on the 1st page , that shovelware is there because of "nintendos new sucker crowd they got from wii"
is also ridiculous , the reason the shovelware exists is because game boy has always been a product marketed heavily to kids , huge amounts of the base demographic are kids , and the shovelware companies know that ,and also know that they can spend zero money to develop this crap , and then spend the money they save on developing the game to buy a license to slap "justin beiber" or "animated movie of the week" or " popular toy ,like bratz or zhu zhu pets" or "miley cyrus" on the box
and they know the little ankle biters will be in the wallmarts and the targets with their parents and see the box and then start nagging their parent/s non stop till the parent buys it
it is the same marketing strategy that cereal and snack food companies use , they put cartoon characters on the boxes to get the kids to nag their parent into buying it
havent you ever seen the studies?
they ask kids which product they like or like better and they always pick the one with the cartoon on the box,even if they have never had it before and they have had the competing product and already know they like it,they even do things like put carrots or brusselsprouts in a box with cartoons on it in these studies and ask the kids if they like it better than the same exact thing in a brown box and the kids always say the vegetables or whatever taste better from the colorfull box than the generic packaging,
its all about profits , demographics,and marketing research, these are huge faceless corporations ,and they engage in the same old familiar tactics,cause they know they work and have been proven time and time again and they know that kids are impressionable and can be manipulated easily and that is the whole reason behind the shovelware, it is a fast easy ,lazy way for them to make the quick buck
piracy has nothing to do with it ,every console ever created was hacked and allowed piracy , except maybe for the ones that failed misserably,so what does that tell you?
hmm 3do,not hacked, sega saturn, not hacked, nes-hacked , snes hacked, i had a backup unit myself for it, the gamedoctor by bung, virtual boy not hacked, look how well that one did ,lets see gba and ds hacked , anyone noticing a pattern here?n64 hacked, atari jaguar ,not hacked
shall i go on?
