Watsham talks more about 3DS piracy, Renegade Kid planning support into 2014

Renegade Kid co-founder Jools Watsham has published a second blog post focusing on 3DS piracy.

Watsham started out by looking to clarify his thoughts, as “some people have taken my comments as an attack on Nintendo, the 3DS, and the players.” But Watsham noted: “Nothing could be further from the truth.”

Watsham went on:

I understand that piracy is always going to exist, and that every market has some form of piracy. I accept that piracy will exist on the 3DS. The question is how much is it affecting the market? Some markets maintain a healthy business environment alongside piracy. I believe this is due to many factors, not least of which is the service provided in that market.

I don’t think there is a solution to piracy. It will always exist in some form. We just need to make sure the price of games is affordable. We need to make it easy to buy and own games. The availability and access player’s have to their games needs to be at least as easy and convenient as the ROM sites make it to illegally download a game file. Ideally, it should be better. If the player’s only question is, “buy or not buy?”, and not dealing with issues such as, “how do I transfer ownership of this game to my new system?” then we’ll have minimized the appeal of piracy.

Ultimately, Watsham noted that Renegade Kid’s “support of the 3DS platform couldn’t be stronger.” The studio has games planned for Nintendo’s portable into 2014.

Be sure to read the full blog post here.