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

[Joelcool7]

I read the OP and was confused. Sure its easy to hack but what does hardcore gamers have to do with that. You talked about why Hardcore gamers don't buy the software on Wii but failed to truly link that to piracy. I think Piracy does diminish sales of software of 200,000-500,000 copies which is a lot. However I think that alot of the sales of Nintendo first party titles prove that their is a market for quality software and that Piracy is not mainstream enough amongst Nintendo's consumers.

That being said its true their are alot of pirates out their. However I don't think that it is the reason core games don't sell on Wii. You look at a pirate riddled console like the PSP where software usually doesn't sell all that well. Most games not even breaking 200,000 copies. Even first party software fails to sell truly well. Yet on the Wii first party software often even breaks the two million mark.

Yes as I estimated based on my own calculations that their is probubly up to 500,000 pirated copies of big games. Example I'd bet that over 500,000 people downloaded pirated copies of NSMBW. That being said I think their is more then enough legit gamers out their who do not pirate for core software to still sell.