sharky974 on 22 October 2008
| Magnific0 said: Piracy is surely going to hit sales hard. The game is already out there, I will go play it tomorrow at a friend's , I know two more people who have it too, and a couple more who just modded their X360 as soon as they found out of these "very early releases" they can get this way.... heck, I'm giving it some serious thought too, it might be worth it to pick up an old 20-gigger if I'm to get early games and for free (or almost free), RROD or not, I think I'd take the deal >:) |
No it isnt. Piracy is always very small on consoles since you actually have to physically mod the console to do it (unlike on PC, where it's just a matter of downloading a cracked game). PS2 was modded and piracy wasnt a big factor on it.
Also all new 360's DVD drives cant be flashed for some time, this will be another big limiting factor going forward, it's limited to old 360's.
Halo 3 (or was it 2, cant recall) was pirated almost a month before release and had no major effect on sales. With Gears 2 it's only some two weeks till release, better off than Halo was.
