Nonquihote said:
Wii games are all over torrent sites just wainting to be downloaded.
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As FishyJoe has already pointed out (and other as well throughout this forum):
- Nintendo profits from the sale of every piece of hardware, be it a Wii or a DS
- Sony incurs a loss for each PS3 sold (during launch, the money lost per PS3 sold roughly equated to the cost of buying a Wii at retail)
- As Sony depends on the "printer cartridge" business model to recover losses, Sony relies on software sales to drive profits
- Nintendo would make much more money if their software wasn't that easily pirated (and boy, is it easy to pirate!) but the fact is Nintendo doesn't need to rely on software to make money - they are already making mad money as it is.
Yes, Wii games are all over the torrent sites. You should see what the activity is like on the Chinese torrent sites!
Is Nintendo upset about this? Probably. Is Nintendo losing money because of the piracy? Of course. Is Nintendo going to lose sleep over this? I say nay. Regardless of software losses, they are still growing as a company, recently overtaking even NTT DoCoMo (!) in Japan, making them now the fifth largest company in Japan, and I would venture to say they didn't even take anti-piracy that seriously - because their business model doesn't rely on it. If piracy was such an important matter Nintendo would have attempted to include better deterrents than what they currently have in place - which admittedly, is a joke.
