Live Ban-Wave: Clever Way to Sell 1 Million Additional 360s in US/Canada?

[theprof00]

DirtyP2002 said:

theprof00 said:
It all depends on what makes sense for your marketing strategy.
If, like MS, you make profits on the console, then it benefits you to hammerban.
If, like Sony, you lose money on the console, then it is not beneficial to hammerban. Of course ps3 is, so far, unable to play pirated games, so that's their solution.

??? So Sony made a loss with the hardware and therefore they should not ban pirates ??? How are they gonna get losses they made with the hardware back?

You have to make people buy your games, not stealing it. That goes for all consoles and strategies.

There are no pirates on the playstation 3 home entertainment console.

However, if you make money on a console sale, it is beneficial to sell a console that can be pirated, and then freeze them with an update down the road so that they have to buy another one. Not saying that people do it, but it's obviously been brought up at board meetings before.