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In a raid conducted by Mexican authorities, 15,000 counterfeit Nintendo products were seized, which included 4,500 counterfeit Wii software discs.

This raid in Guadalajara is the continuation of Nintendo's actions in the region. Just last month they busted the shipment of 5,500 counterfeit Nintendo products entering Manzanillo from China, and prior to that they helped authorities in a raid of the San Juan de Dios market in Guadalajara, where more than 56,000 counterfeit Nintendo products (including 11,000 fake Wii games) were confiscated from over 20 stores.

"Mexico is Nintendo's largest market in Latin America, where the problem of video game piracy is widespread," said Jodi Daugherty, Nintendo of America's senior director of anti-piracy. "Since January, Nintendo has worked with law enforcement agencies worldwide to seize 100,000 counterfeit Wii games."

It seems like Nintendo is rolling up their sleeves and taking care of business. The press release says that Nintendo figures that they lost $762 million in 2006 due to piracy, so you really can't blame them for wanting to take care of this problem.

source via destructoid]

wonder how these fake games play in a non-modded wii...

*drew ponders this completely innocently

Its nice to hear that Nintendo is finally taking care of things. If I was in Nintendo's position, I wouldn't be too happy about losing $762 million in 2006 alone, all because of piracy.

yeah thats a lot of money to lose!

It certainly is. They seem to be making up for it, but with all these scandals going around...

Good to know. I actually thought it was only Asia that had a problem with the counterfeiting... Never new Mexico had the problem too. I wonder if stuff of that size happens here in the US

Nintendo kicked piracy BUTT!