Sony: Piracy Has Taken 'Big Chunk Of Game Sales' From PSP!

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Kasz216 said:

shock182 said:

Kasz216 said:

I disagree.... I think piracy has created a huge chunk of PSPs sold.

Without piracy... these PSPs just wouldn't of sold.

It's like the Ipod.  Is piracy hurting Itunes sales....?  Or is it pushing more Ipods.

Studies seem to show it's the latter.

It said "Big chunk of Game Sales"

Sure it sold more PsPs. The extra PsPs sold do not equal Game sales though.

 

True.  I doubt piracy has effected sales that much however.  Sony's way of calculating is "Hey look at all those games people downloaded for free... those would of all been bought if it wasn't for piracy!"

When the fact is people are sociologically conditioned to want to pay fair price for a product.

If people don't... by in large its because

A) the price is unfair

B) the don't have the money to buy it.

Or at least that's how current sociological economic theory tells it.

 

I agree. People are playing games they would not buy otherwise due to downloads. Yes Sony will blow the potential loss through the roof in the press. The downside to it though is the lack of quality bigger budget 3rd party games, as a publisher would see the potential sales loss as a huge negative.

A) agreed (I can only think of 2 psp games I was happy paying full price for)

B) Think this may be a bit generalized for the psp demographic but plausable