Hisiru said:
And please... piracy on PC isn't the same thing as piracy on xbox360/ps3. If you play pirated games on your xbox 360 you will have your system banned, so that's why people will buy original games even if you can play pirated games on your xbox 360. Even Capcom said that they wouldn't release Super Street Fighter IV for PC due to piracy, but now they are giving a second chance. http://exophase.com/18499/capcom-bails-on-super-street-fighter-iv-pc-blames-piracy/ |
So presumably the piracy problem has either magically disappeared, or there never really was a problem in the first place.
All your list is, is a bunch of very console-centric games that never made it to the PC, and you haven't supplied a single quote from any of their developers stating that the PC version was passed on due to piracy. As a random example, here are some quotes from Tim Schafer about Brutal Legend, nothing about piracy there. A few of those games' predecessors sold poorly on the PC (Condemned, Madden, Rock Band), so likely weren't deemed viable for PC sequels. Not every game is going to get released on every platform, despite some developers' best efforts to homogenise games into some lowest common denominator mush.
Funnily enough, another game in your list, Dante's Inferno, was downloaded over 1.25 million times last year according to TorrentFreak, becoming the most pirated 360 title of the year. In general, XBox piracy rates run at about 30-40% of PC piracy rates, and 360 games are often available for download much earlier than the PC version, so no, it's not as widespread, but it's still very significant and it's increasing.
