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

[Squilliam]

Hephaestos said:

Squilliam said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

Interest=/=Willing to Buy.

People have to have interest before they buy. People without interest don't buy and they don't pirate so the pirates have to have at least a marginal interest in a game before they pirate it.

the equivalence is not an exact match.

 

You need just a marginal interest to download, however you need a 15£-40£ interest to actually buy.

 

most pirates probably don't ever see/play over 1/2 of their movie/series/games collections. Heck I don't even have time for the games I buy :x

It doesn't have to be a match. The important area for consideration is at the margins where someone might be swayed in either direction. Im not talking about the professional pirates but the people who could go either way between purchasing and pirating. All im saying is that the largest source of these people are core gamers as they have the will and technical know-how to pirate games and they are the early adopters of piracy. With the DS in Europe the flash SD cards are gaining momentum from the core market into the casual market and the same I believe applies here.