An interesting documentary was show on Channel 4 recently called “The Fake Trade”, which tells the story of the rise of the counterfeit industry born from major brands outsourcing to China, which has resulted in a global industry worth several billion that is able to replicate almost anything, even eggs and drugs!

With this in mind, it might not seem surprising that the huge success of the Nintendo Wii, has spawned brood of imitation goods (PS3 Sixaxis is one). The most notable of these is the self proclaimed Chintendo “Vii” made by KenSingTon (lol, they even faked the brand Kensignton!).

The system is basically a supped up NES that features a motion censored controller similar to the Wii, but far inferior.

Anyways, this great video on YouTube pretty much sums it up, have a look.

The threat of the Vii, is not going to make Nintendo break a sweat, however the modding and pirating of Wii software was reported to have lost Nintendo nearly $1 billion dollars (source:Next Gen), and the company isn’t happy about that at all.