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Chinese Rip Offs

Now let’s look at something weird, or shocking : Chinese rip offs.
There are full of copycats in China that copy popular trademarks such as Nintendo Wii and Nokia to fool people to buy their products.

Vii is a rip off of Nintendo Wii. It imitates Nintendo Wii’s Wiimote and even their design. Vii comes with about 8 games such as golf, bowling and even fry egg. They all have horrible 2D graphics and boring gameplay. The Vii console is very light, if you open it, you can see its emptiness. Why the manufactor made the console so big? Because by imitating Wii, many iliterated and unexperienced people will get fooled (people will think it is Nintendo Wii). You can watch the Vii review video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wed_bW8iiEw. As you can see, the games sucked so much. It will be a nightmare if my Wii was replaced by that Vii.

Here are more links about Vii:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vii
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wed_bW8iiEw
• http://kotaku.com/gaming/copy/chinas-answer-to-the-nintendo-wii-305311.php

Pop Station is a rip off of PSP. Its packaging imitates PSP’s packaging, and the buttons also imitate PSP. The box even say “Color Display”. Like Vii, it has horrible gameplay, graphic and sound, and nightmare. Many variations of Pop Station are made, some of them have radio (to imitate PSP’s music player), some of them look like Netbook laptop, and you can watch review videos about Pop Station at Dr. Ashen’s YouTube channel. You can watch its review video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvXleDSkB-g.

Links about Pop Station:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popstation
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvXleDSkB-g
• http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=29641

Poly Station 3 is a rip off of PS3. You can play without hooking it to the TV. Of course, it’s a low-quality piece of plastic junk. You can watch a video about Poly Station 3 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a6lxiB1b_I.

Links about Poly Station 3:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Polystation_3
• http://www.previewgadgets.com/gadget/chinese-ripoff-the-polystation-3/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a6lxiB1b_I

Neo Double Games is a rip off off Nintendo DS. Instead of using 2 screens in one game, it has 2 screens, but the second screen is obslete and it’s only used for imitation purpose. Also, some buttons do not work, because they are used to make it look like DS> You can watch its review video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow9SHsnFG2U.

More links about Neo Double Games:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Double_Games
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow9SHsnFG2U

Nokir is a Chinese rip off mobile company. They copy Nokia cell phones under the brand of Nokir. (in the logo, capital A and R look similar) You can read more about Nokir cell phones at http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/nokir_e828_episode_mmvx_chinese_copy_cats_strike_back.php.

Some people even rip off cars! Ferrari was ripped off under $10k. It guarantees no safety and insurance, so it’s a risk to buy it. Source: http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/chinese_make_a_fake_ferrari.php.

Other rip offs include fake iPhones, fake iPods and more. You can read more about them at http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/top_10_chinese_rip_offs.php. Even footwears are ripped off, under a mispelled name, for example: http://engrishfunny.com/2009/07/06/engrish-bna-knie/. Iliterated Chinese people made this: http://failblog.org/2008/07/22/translation-fail/, they think “Translate server error” means “Restaurant”.

Why there are so much rip offs in China? The intellectual property (IP) protection in China is poor. They could copy foreign IPs without lawsuits. Therefore, China is a big country of piracy. Almost all Windows XP discs are pirated (price is about 11 yuan). (some pirated Windows XP discs states that they are cracked by Russian hackers. Russia and China are related to communism.) Also, many Chinese people are uneducated, illiterated, and unexperienced. Therefore, they are more prone to bootlegs, pirated products and scams. (“When you are buying Vii, you are buying communism!”) The rip off manufacturors intentionally imitated major consoles such as Wii to fool people, and also to fit the poor economy. Can you imagine that your Nintendo Wii was replaced by Vii, your PS3 was replaced by PolyStation 3, and your DS was replaced by Neo Double Games. Can you imagine you are playing same boring games with horrible graphics and sound? It will be a gaming nightmare for you.

Tags: Chinese Rip Offs, DS, PS3, PSP, Wii