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Human Rights Group boycotts 3DS

Destructoid: A representative of the Enough group has started a Facebook movement to boycott Nintendo's 3DS handheld console because it uses a "conflict mineral" mined in the Congo.

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Dark_Charizard5542d ago

493 attending? LOL! 3DS will sell MILLIONS more than that!

Downtown boogey5542d ago

I don't know if the 3DS will sell more than 493

captain-obvious5542d ago (Edited 5542d ago )

this may not hurt the 3DS form selling now since everyone is just hyped about it
but it may hurt it in the long run
bad publicity and all
and moms just telling friends how their sons eyes hurt when the play it and all

and you know the rest

Downtown boogey5542d ago (Edited 5542d ago )

@Disagrees

Ok, maybe it'll sell 5-10 more, but that might be it.

NinjaCameraman5542d ago

True but ONE crying woman managed to get EA to edit Medal of Honor's online so think of how much damage 500 misguided bleeding hearts can do against a faceless big corperate bad-guy like Nintendo.

wwm0nkey5542d ago

There is no proof to even back up their claim.

George Sears5542d ago

Some mothers sister father of uncle sam told them.

saint_john_paul_ii5542d ago

this actually has been going on for a while, and with other consoles, like the PS2/PS3.

there's a certain mineral used to make these consoles that comes from one of those African nations, worse yet, these nations are in a civil war against one another. these minerals are needed for them to continue paying for their civil war. i dont know though what mineral it was, but i heard about this in the news for a while back.

kneon5542d ago

In the Congo I think it was tungsten and tantalum. But these are used in all kinds of electronics, there is nothing unique about the electronics in game consoles or handhelds.

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U.S. patent examiner rejects Nintendo’s summoning characters patent as obvious: non-final ruling

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).

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Relientk7730d ago (Edited 30d ago )

Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.

PRIMORDUS29d ago (Edited 29d ago )

Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

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Nintendo Completes Share Repurchase and Sets Price for Secondary Offering

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

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Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.

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Deathdeliverer55d ago

Well dayum lol. Old agent orange pissing off every industry and nation.

0hMyGandhi54d ago

The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.

AuraAbjure53d ago (Edited 53d ago )

Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.

EveryPlatformGamer55d ago

LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.

-Foxtrot54d ago

That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.

It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.

Outside_ofthe_Box54d ago (Edited 54d ago )

A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.

People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers

Inverno54d ago

The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.

Eonjay54d ago

Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.

Inverno53d ago

I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.

Killer2020UK53d ago

The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷‍♂️

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