Nintendo’s anti-piracy efforts appear to have proven futile, as their latest Super Mario game has been leaked online before its official release.
Eagerly-anticipated Switch title Super Mario Party was leaked two days before its release, with working copies of the game having been widely circulated online.
The source of the leak is unknown, although it is noteworthy that review copies of the Nintendo Switch game had been released to journalists several days earlier.
Despite Nintendo’s relatively high levels of success in stopping sites from sharing copies of 30-year-old NES roms, this incident does underline the fact that their current generation hardware remains extremely vulnerable to piracy.
You can never stop piracy. For every piracy website closed down, two more will take its place.
There are different approaches other than domain name seizure
HAIL HYDRA!!!
Isn’t there like 60+++ hours of “great gameplay footage” on Giant Bomb showcasing that Mario Party’s are some of the worst games ever created…?
That’s what you get for outsourcing QA and providing journalists with the full package.
nintendo being a cheap company, nothing new to see here
…. and what else is new here? Nintendo never had an Anti piracy measure to stop us from downloading anything they only crippled the some of the well known NES rom sites, but pirates still found away to pirate their NES collection from E-shop lol
The entire NES catalogue is less than 100mb. Hardly a staggering block of data that’s hard to shift.
I downloaded every game for a ninny console/handheld ages ago, up to and including the Wii (and then deleted the vast majority of the Wii titles and cut every Imagine game from the DS). This was last weekend.
f♥♥k you, Reggie. You lose, everyone else wins. You want to stop piracy? Get a better business plan.