Aj_habfan said:
Kasz216 said:
axumblade said:
Spectrumglr said:
aavidbacon said:
jesus kung fu magic said:
Isnt pirated games one of the bullet points on the psp packaging?
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Not in the game devs point of view. There´s not as many games in production in comparison with the DS, even if you take the fact that the DS is a beast, both in hw and sw. There are 40 mln PSPs out there and still...
Well I´ve just bought one, and I´ll do my part, as I already said.
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piracy is an issue also for DS (just google for "NDS roms")...but the system still sells a lot of software
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It's nowhere near as bad as the PSP's problem with it. Not to mention, one of the major R4 distributors (I think that's what they're called) recently was arrested.
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Only if you assume that every PSP sold would of been sold had it been piracy proof.
Had it not been for it's piracy and hackability isn't it possible... and really likely... that a large number wouldn't of been sold.
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Perhaps there are those people, but there are also the people like me, who pirate games on PSP because it is just so easy and you are made to feel like a sucker for not doing it by people that do do it.
(I don't pirate anymore, btw.)
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People like you are pretty rare in current economic theory however.
In general people are conditioned to WANT to pay for stuff. It's preferable to actually pay a fair price for something then to steal it.
The only people who pirate are people who see the product they want and think it's at an unreasonable price.
Such people are very unlikely to buy a system if they see games as priced too high. To them... there aren't enough games worth paying for to buy the system.
Hence why when piracy is available, they buy the system... and pirate most games. Yet likely mostly would buy ones they would of bought anyway if they had received the system as a gift or something.
