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Cobretti2 on 04 January 2011
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Euphoria14 said:
KylieDog said:

Home brew is championed by piracy.  Anyone doubting this is kidding themselves.  Yeah there are other apps but piracy is the reason people buy it.

 

Claiming homebrew isn't mainly for piracy is like claiming people buy PS3s for the ability to play MP3s.


Anyone acting like piracy will kill a console is kidding themselves just as much.

 

Just ask the PS2 and Wii if piracy destroyed them.

 

 

This is why the whole issue of piracy is overblown. Black Ops was pirated in 2010 more than MW2 was pirated in 2009 if I am not mistaken, but isn't it outselling it in the same span?


Yes but great AAA games will sell well no matter how many pirates are out there. If anything piracy causes more consoles to be sold. Hardware is moved but software isn't

There are those half pirates that will buy great games (9 or higher rated or Nintendo only games) but won't buy a 3rd party 8 rated game and pirate it instead.

Wii is a good example of that

Core games like GoldenEye not quite up to AAA standard but it gets pirated a lot.

Casual Gamers are the ones who least know how to hack their consoles for piracy so their games will always sell.

PSP and DS have the same problem. Before R4 come out there was a lot of game sales on DS.

Lets face it we all know people out there who only pirate if they can do it. I have a few mates who pirate all their DS games and and somewhat WIi games simply because it is easy.

Hell I have hacked my PSP, but mainly so I can play NES/SNES games on a nice big portable screen lol. Mind you I haven't touched my PSP in 3years or so.