In hindsight what could have Nintendo done to stem piracy on Wii?

[Ail]

Kasz216 said:

Ail said:

Kasz216 said:

Piracy doesn't hurt game sales so much as it helps system sales.

There is a reason why Apple avoids easy piracy measures on it's Ipods and other such devices.

Pirates are usually people who don't feel like the product is worth the price, but want the product anyway.

If you take away there ability to get it free.... it doesn't change the fact that they think the product isn't worth the price.

 

Typical argument, I pirate but I woudn't buy the stuff if I wasn't pirating.....

 

How then do you explain the fact that music records revenue started to go down heavilly when more people started downloading MP3 on the web ???

Another case of they wouldn't have purchased any music if they could not pirate it ?

 

People pirate because they have lousy morals and are lazy and feel like they are entitled to get stuff for free and most likely won't get caught anyway and that's about it..........

 

 

How do I explain it?  MP3 sales revenue also went up.

CD sales didn't go down because of piracy.  They went down because CDs are a dieing format.  Ask pretty much any economist.

Additionally they've done things like rise prices during poor economic times and reduce releases.  They're killing themselves.

It's like claiming VHS piracy for VHS sales dropping.  DVD was just the next big thing.

This isn't a "pirates excuse"  I don't pirate anythig.  Not even MP3s.  It's sound economic theory.

Total revenues for CDs, vinyl, cassettes and digital downloads in the U.S. dropped from a high of $14.6 billion in 1999 to $10.4 billion in 2008.