Yoshida Explains Struggles of Piracy & Why Japanese Don’t Care For New Consoles

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Burek said:

KLAMarine said:
Piracy: it's threatening to kill the industry.

Well, game piracy has been around for decades, and the industry is still alive.

If anything, piracy greatly helped Sony to move PS2 and PSP consoles in such numbers.

This. People love the boogieman and perfect scape goat that is piracy. But hypocrisy aside, the harm piracy has (outside china of course) in the industry is much smaler than some people would like costumers to believe. In fact piracy is very usefull in excusing every bad decision and sheer imcompetence of developers and publishers.