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Would piracy for the Switch...

Kill it's potential 59 28.92%
 
Help with sales 113 55.39%
 
Other 32 15.69%
 
Total:204
potato_hamster on 15 March 2017
Johnw1104 said:
Lawlight said:

You just have to look at what happened with the PSP. If it is something you can do at home and it allows you to play full games, then it is going to be a problem.

As far as I can recall the PSP did wonderfully.

There's been a few times where I saw piracy actually affect consoles... Xbox (OG) where people would download the entire library onto their console and some of those early CD-based consoles that you could simply burn your own games for. Even then, the impact was minimal as most people don't bother with such things.

Besides, Switch games are still a long, long way from being playable when emulated.

Really? Because I wouldn't be surprised at all if pirated games are playable on the Switch in a proof of concept form within a month.



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Johnw1104 on 15 March 2017
potato_hamster said:
Johnw1104 said:

As far as I can recall the PSP did wonderfully.

There's been a few times where I saw piracy actually affect consoles... Xbox (OG) where people would download the entire library onto their console and some of those early CD-based consoles that you could simply burn your own games for. Even then, the impact was minimal as most people don't bother with such things.

Besides, Switch games are still a long, long way from being playable when emulated.

Really? Because I wouldn't be surprised at all if pirated games are playable on the Switch in a proof of concept form within a month.

That's not at all the same thing as being playable.



potato_hamster on 15 March 2017
Johnw1104 said:
potato_hamster said:

Really? Because I wouldn't be surprised at all if pirated games are playable on the Switch in a proof of concept form within a month.

That's not at all the same thing as being playable.

By that I mean - It wouldn't be surprised if within a month, hackers have figured out a way to play unsigned roms on the Switch, it's just the exploit won't packaged in a way that is readily distributable and easy to install by other people. That can take a while on its own.