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

[DM235]

Squilliam said:

DM235 said:
I think the effect of piracy is highly overrated.

Take a look at the Others region. The PS3 is yet to be hacked, while the XBox 360 was hacked just after it was released. Right now there are roughly 15.3 million each of XBox 360s and PS3s sold in this region. And the software sales? 94 million for PS3 and 91 million for the 360.

Even if you discount the 3 million in sales the 360 had before the PS3 was even released, that would put the numbers at 94 million and 88 million.

That puts the difference at 6 million or 6.8% over 3 years. I know that may have been the difference between losing money and making money on some games but I think for the most part it would not have mattered.

I also know that this isn't a very scientific comparison, so if anyone knows of a better one, please share...

The Xbox 360 was released 18 months ahead of the PS3, was leading the PS3 for the vast majority of the time and has around equal software sales? That doesn't make sense, especially when considering the sales curves: http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=Wii®1=------&cons2=PS3®2=Europe&cons3=X360®3=Europe&start=39173&end=39810&weekly=1

The hardware sales are almost equal, the games are similar, and the target audience is similar, so why wouldn't the software sales be similar?  I also discounted the first year of software sales for the 360 to account for the head start.  I am assuming that any difference would be due to piracy.

And what is your chart trying to show?  You are showing Europe when I was talking about the Others region, and you are looking at one year, when I was looking at lifetime sales.