Piracy is the real reason why core games on Wii don't sell as well?

[Squilliam]

LordTheNightKnight said:

Squilliam said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

But that doesn't mean it's because those are Wii games. Those games are just worth about that price to consumers period. It would be the same on the HD systems.

Is it? You've got one system with very strong copy protection and the other has a big downside to piracy in the form of losing access to Xbox Live and some console features. With comparable games, features like online are far weaker as well as overall user experience due to loading times etc. These features are more likely to reduce value for a Wii game for a significant proportion of the core gamer market on the Wii, which by itself doesn't make up a majority of sales but it does have relevance when talking about the relative sales of applicable core titles.

That just means less piracy, not more sales. Just because one can't pirate something doesn't mean one will buy it. One has to want to buy it to make one buy it.

As for online, that's debatable, since many of those online games have been shown to sell better with local multiplayer, and worse without. So that does not reduce value.

Loading times? Are you kidding me? The Wii's loading is no worse than the other systems. So claiming that reduces value only counts for those that believe that false fact.

One has to have an interest in something to bother pirating it. The same interest is required to buy something as well. The most pirated games according to torrents are also the highest selling games.

For online im talking about a smaller sub group which has a greater interest in online play to compliment the local play experience. Having online play doesn't hurt, having no online gameplay does hurt for a reasonable number of people as online gaming becomes more mainstream. This subgroup is also the group which is part of the likely pirate demographic.