Microsoft: Digital Distribution Will Outstrip Physical Sales

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TheRealMafoo said:

shams said:

TheRealMafoo said:

shams said:

As for piracy - its much harder to pirate digitally distributed software than it is to pirate physical media. Much, much, MUCH harder. Its probably the "real" push behind digital distribution.

 

I disagree. Try and pirate a 200 Gig game, vs a 6 Gig DL.

Easy. A 200Gig game comes on a disc, which can be copied. A 6Gig (or any size) digital download can't be copied, and might even require internet access.

Additional size is no deterent for pirates at all. Lack of physical media or drives is.

 

The only gaming system at the moment without a lot of piracy, is the PS3, and that's strictly due to size. And what makes you think files sitting on your HD that you downloaded digitally, can't be copied?

The reason that there is so little piracy on the PS3 is because it uses BluRay discs.  Blank BluRay discs are expensive, and so are the drives to burn the discs.  It just doesn't make economic sense to pirate PS3 games right now.  It doesn't have anything to do with the size of the media.