Your Suggestions and hopes for a *BETTER* PSP

[Lord N]

jedson328 said:

@perpride and Lord N

That is the great thing about opinions, everyone has one. The studies I have seen from the BSA about software piracy and its affect on the economy, jobs, and sales are enough for me. People who pirate software can always justify that what they are doing is okay and not hurting anyone, but its just not true.

So tell me honestly what you think ... Did software piracy affect the sales of Crysis? It is estimated that the piracy to sales ratio in the US is around 5:1. That certainly affected their bottom line, which in the end will change how they make software in the future.

Using the Wii and PS2 are bad examples ... yes piracy will cut into sales numbers, but the install bases are large enough that developers will recoup costs. The PSP on the other hand has an install base of 33-34 Million, and the highest rated game, God of War: Chains of Olympus, only sells 1.2 Million. You don't see a problem here?

 

Every independent economic study has found that such a thing has almost no effect on sales. You can even come to that conclusion just by putting two and two together. If it really were that damaging, then all of the major record labels would have filed for bankruptcy long ago considering that it's long since been possible to download an artist's entire discography within mere hours.

Citing how many times a game has been downloaded doesn't make your argument any sound either. It's nothing but gross speculation because there's no way you can prove how many of those people would have bought the game had it not been available for download. Crysis sold poorly simply because it wasn't that great of a game to begin with. It's funny how developers and the drones who believe everything they say always want to use P2P as a scapegoat every time a game sells poorly.