Sure used torrent a lot back then where download speeds used to shit as in 1 week for just 4gb. Living in a 3rd world country and that's the only way you can have games as they cost as much as a month worth of food. We don't even have shops that sell legit games lols, well maybe 1 or 2 shop that is 30km away that sell at x3 the price.
Only stop torrenting afters things got easily accessible (a lot more shops sell legit games and it's easy to import/order games now also psn/steam) and prices go down significantly (sales/discounts). It's even kind more convenient since I don't need tons of HDD space anymore to store games and I can just redownload it from steam. Even bought games I used to pirate as I kid since like, hey I like that game back then, whoa it's only <5$ neat.
dunno bout Nintendo products and games, seems like they still sell it at a premium price here, so... yo-ho-ho!