The Wii may not be out yet here in Taiwan, but in entirely unexpected news, people are already clamoring for mod chips and LG DVD rewritable drives! Prices for bootlegged discs are somewhere between $5 to $7 US, as opposed to the $35+ for the real deal.

Bootlegging isn’t quite as blatant here as I remember it being in Shanghai, at least not for the newer stuff. Still, it would be nice if Taiwan would get at least try and get off Nintendo’s shit list. I’m tired of having slim pickings in languages that I can actually understand while shopping for new games.

Taiwan market: Modified Wiis linked to booming sales of LG DVD-Rom drives [Digitimes]