Sಌoulja Boy says he sold 5 million consoles iꩵn December, which seems like a lot.
The last time you thought of Soulja Boy might have been sometime in the late 2000s when he was still culturally relevant. He’s still doing the whole rapper ♊thing, bu🐷t since then he’s branched out into merchandising deals with Chinese manufacturers, including one which makes game consoles.
We should probably point out that those game consoles w🧸ere almost certainly sold illegally. First, they bare a striking resemblance to the Nintendo Game Boy, Wii, Neo Geo, and PlayStation consoles. Second, they’re all essentially emulator boxes that come preloaded with thousands of retro games - games that could not have possibly been legally licensed at the price Soulja Boy was selling them for.
But money is money, and marketing under the brand name Soulja Console meant that there was a certain sense of legitimacy, even if the rest of what Soulja Boy sells on his are knock-off Beats headphones, Apple Watches, and Apple 𝔉Airpods.
In🌳 a tweet from earlier in December, Soulja defended his decision to start selling these consoles by saying he’d already . That tweet has since been delete💖d, and it might have had something to do with the fact that Nintendo got involved and was about to sue the ever-loving pants off him.
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Soulja has since from his online store, saying that he was forced to “boss up” when Nintend💛o threatened legal action.
But if you want a super illegal emulator console, you can still buy them. Soulja’s consoles were nothing more than marked up emulator boxes widely available on AliExpress, so you can direct from China. And Nintendo can’t sue AliExpress because they’re the biggest retailer in China.
Soulja, however, is on the hook.