Electric Playground recently caught up with Hal Halpin, President and founder of the Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA), to talk about the online battle to stop the passage of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Halpin talks about how the online protest last week slowed down the momentum of both SOPA and PIPA, and why these bills aren't quite dead yet.
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Andrew Eisen: Needless to say, a chunck of those might not be inclined to plunk down their dough for Nintendo's new console when they just bought a competitor's, compounded with the fact that Nintendo has shown little interest in catering to their needs.02/22/2012 - 5:43pm
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Andrew Eisen: If Nintendo is serious about courting the core gamer, it can't just ignore them until it releases the Wii U. They'll just get their fix somewhere else.02/22/2012 - 5:40pm
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Andrew Eisen: A game which didn't light the sales charts on fire but didn't bomb either. In fact, from what I've read, NA sales make up a good half of that game's worldwide sales. Not to mention the good will Atlus garners by continuing to cater to gamers.02/22/2012 - 5:34pm
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RedMage: Especially when the likes of Atlus seem to have no problem doing a great job localizing something niche like Catherine.02/22/2012 - 2:20pm
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Uncharted NES: Entertainment Industry Embraces New Business Model: Suing Google For Third-Party Android Apps That 'Promote Piracy'- http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120221/08245617830/entertainment-industry-embraces-new-business-model-suing-google-third-party-android-02/22/2012 - 2:07pm
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Andrew Eisen: Hard to imagine the games would sell so poorly that they wouldn't cover the reletively minimal cost of bringing them over (shipping, ESRB rating, new packaging, printing, etc.).02/22/2012 - 2:02pm
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Andrew Eisen: A point I made in that YouTube video I did last summer. The games tend to sell more copies here so if the damn thing is already developed and localized, why not release it here?02/22/2012 - 2:00pm
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RedMage: That's what I figured. It's especially ironic since the black and white data shows NA buys more of these games than Europe or even Japan.02/22/2012 - 1:57pm
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Andrew Eisen: And honestly, at this point, most probably won't because they saw their were no more games and moved on.02/22/2012 - 1:55pm
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Andrew Eisen: Localizing for Europe is actually harder. Or at least, more work because typically, you do more languages. I don't think its a matter of difficulty but that Nintendo, for whatever reason, has no faith in NA gamers to actually buy these games.02/22/2012 - 1:54pm
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Andrew Eisen: Fatal Frame's localization was also announced! For Europe...02/22/2012 - 1:52pm
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RedMage: Definitely the latter. I'd still like to know why Europe is apparently easier to localize RPGs for.02/22/2012 - 1:51pm
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Andrew Eisen: Do you mean the quality of the localization itself or Nintendo's tone deafness when it comes to catering to the NA market.02/22/2012 - 1:45pm
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RedMage: That being said, Nintendo still sucks when it comes to localization.02/22/2012 - 1:42pm
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RedMage: Last Story confirmed for North America in 2012! FINALLY! http://bit.ly/yDVyEY02/22/2012 - 1:42pm
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Andrew Eisen: Sounds like an interesting story. Nothing to do with video games I wouldn't think but we're big on free speech rights here. Darn shame Slashdot's link doesn't work.02/22/2012 - 1:32pm
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Uncharted NES: The 'New' Righthaven Offers Discount To Techdirt Readers Who Want 'Spineful' Hosting- http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120221/03205417825/new-righthaven-offers-discount-to-techdirt-readers-who-want-spineful-hosting.shtml02/22/2012 - 1:30pm
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Uncharted NES: Man Ordered To Apologize To Wife On Facebook- http://slashdot.org/palm/17/12/02/22/1448242_1.shtml02/22/2012 - 1:28pm
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Uncharted NES: Seriously Zippy? Well Happy 36th. :)02/22/2012 - 1:11pm
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james_fudge: BREAKING: Happy Birthday!02/22/2012 - 12:37pm
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Comments
Re: Hal Halpin Talks SOPA with Electric Playground
Nice job of explaining, Hal.
Many people still don't/didn't understand what it was all about, so, thanks!
Re: Hal Halpin Talks SOPA with Electric Playground
Wow, that show is still on? I thought G4 cancelled it.