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jarrod on 23 June 2010
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IxisNaugus said:
jarrod said:
IxisNaugus said:

jarrod said:

Wii piracy is actually easier to do than PS2 piracy too btw.  All you need is an SD card or USB drive and a copy of Zelda to install HBC, on PS2 you actually had to chip your console.


Actually, it has gotten a whole lot easier as time has gone on. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is no longer required, there are plenty of other exploits around to take advantage of if you wan't to run the Hackmii Installer or any such application to install the Homebrew channel, DVDx or Bootmii.

It hasn't set in quite yet, but within the next year or so I fully expect piracy to start crippling Wii software sales the same way it has PSP and DS.

I believe something of that degree may already be taking place in European territories. I cannot seem to wrap my head around the relatively poultry software sales that are generated here otherwise. Maybe i'm giving piracy too much credit here, but i know of quite a few individuals - more than i believed i'd known - who forgo purchasing Wii (as well as DS and PSP) software because they have deep enough knowledge of how to pirate them.


No, I think your instincts are on.  Europe tends to be the tipping point for piracy overtaking platforms, it was with PS1, with Dreamcast, with PSP and now it's the region where DS has deflated first.  I expect Wii next year to be in much the same position DS is now.