{"id":105560,"date":"2019-12-14T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/hundreds_of_fake_nes_mini_consoles_seized_by_anti-counterfeiting_taskforce_in_the_us"},"modified":"2019-12-14T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T05:30:00","slug":"hundreds-of-fake-nes-mini-consoles-seized-by-anti-counterfeiting-taskforce-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/14\/hundreds-of-fake-nes-mini-consoles-seized-by-anti-counterfeiting-taskforce-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Of Fake NES Mini Consoles Seized By Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce In The US"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The real NES Classic Mini sold by Nintendo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since the success of the NES Classic Mini, we’ve seen plenty of knock-off versions released that have no official<\/em> ties with Nintendo.<\/p>\n

At a Triangle shopping center in Raleigh, North Carolina recently<\/a>, an anti-counterfeiting taskforce<\/a> seized and obtained a total of 340 fake Nintendo systems.<\/p>\n

According to a local report<\/a>, the sellers “voluntarily” surrendered the counterfeit units. While the real Nintendo Classic Mini contains 30 pre-installed games, the fake ones had between 620-800 pre-installed ROMs.<\/p>\n

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The estimated retail value of the goods exceeds $800,000. The estimated retail value is the amount the genuine trademarked goods would sell for<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Secretary of State Elaine Marshall explained the warning signs to consumers:<\/p>\n

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If it’s inferior quality, it may be a fake. If it’s ‘too good to be true,’ it probably is<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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There’s a lot of money in Nintendo’s miniature console market. As illustrated earlier this year in April, the company’s year-end financial report revealed the NES Mini and SNES Mini were still big sellers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Have you spotted one of these fake systems down at your local mall? Leave a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The real NES Classic Mini sold by Nintendo Since the success of the NES Classic Mini, we’ve seen plenty of knock-off versions released that have no official ties with Nintendo. At a Triangle shopping center in Raleigh, North Carolina recently, an anti-counterfeiting taskforce seized and obtained a total of 340 fake Nintendo systems. According to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}