Nintendo is heralding the latest move in its ongoing efforts to stamp out gaming piracy. The company announced that Mexican authorities today raided a dozen sellers of counterfeit Nintendo goods in a Guadalajaran contraband market. Some 15,000 counterfeited Nintendo products were seized, 4,500 of them being ersatz Wii games.
The Wii maker has cooperated with Mexican authorities a number of times this year, which resulted in stopping a shipment of counterfeited goods from China last month, and the raiding of another market in Guadalajara before that. In that case, 23 stores were closed and more than 56,000 bogus Nintendo products were seized.
A Nintendo representative said the problem of game piracy is widespread in Latin America, and noted that the company has seized 100,000 fake Wii games since the start of the year.
Nintendo estimates that itself, its developers, and its third-party publishers lost $762 million to piracy last year.
Source: Gamespot.com
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