jarrod said:
Right and Comgnet put out sales and preorder figures all the time... how do those compare to the overall JP market again? You can't take just one slice of data (ie: a couple torrent sites) and say that's what things are like everywhere... Also, part of PSP's higher hardware likely has something to do with actually needing the hardware to pirate games. I know you want to pretend emulation doesn't exist, but it does, and PS1, PS2 and DS were all easily emulated during their lifecycles... if you always needed those systems themselves to pirate games, then their hardware sales probably would've been higher too. In fact, a strong case can be made that piracy helps PSP hardware sales... |
actually not couple of torrent sites,many sites put out the pirated figures of all the biggest torrent sites
and stop being Japan market only,i am discusing on worldwide basis
PS1 is nowhere near emulated these days and i mean comparing to other emulated platforms
PS2 still has problems and is nowhere near the piracy itself
DS is high but again compared to the device,not close
PS2 was never emulated during its cycle it had so many problems and till today the full game compatibilty isnot there
as pircay we are discusing the number of hardware sold vs the the number of SW sold on or pirated on it not some other device
yeah piracy helps all console and handheld sales.