Kasz216 said:
routsounmanman said:
Kasz216 said:
routsounmanman said:
I think piracy hurts these games way more than scary system requirements; UT will sell way better on Xbox360/PS3. |
Yeah, cause people are going to spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars to get a PC that can run Crysis and then not spend 50 dollars for the game. The people who pirate games usually are the people who can't afford gaming rigs or the people who won't spend money on gaming rigs. |
As sad as it might sound, it's true. People give away $600 for the latest nVidia/Ati GPU because they think it's worth it and they don't have much choice; there are no pirated, $200 equally powerful GPUs. That's not the case with the games, though. Most people think "heck, it's the same thing and it's some much less expensive". Hardware consumer behavior is totally different than the software one. |
True... based on what? All the pirating studies i've seen has shown that piracy doesn't hurt sales and infact some studies show it can have mild positive effects. |
I know several PC players 2-3000 dollar gaming rigs which never buys any games. This is very common among PC players actually. PC users could use thousands of dollars for hardware and not pay anything for software (including Windows). This is partly because you can find any software in the world from P2P within couple of minutes, even those which hasn't been officially released yet.
Piratism is much more common among PC users than console users anyway. And this has been proven several times in several studies. Even most small companies use at least some pirated software on their PC's.
