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stopstopp on 19 January 2011
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Doobie_wop said:
dsister said:
poroporo said:


Yes, it's all Sony's fault and George Hotz is an innocent little lamb who honesty expected that his CFW would prevent pirates from playing backups.

Sony would indeed be destroying its platform by doing nothing at all. Going the serial way might not stop piracy, but all these a**holes will at least be kept offline.

And yes, producing millions of keys is very possible, just ask Microsoft. The difference with the PC world is that Sony has a private network to protect. If the integrity of PSN is compromised, then the PS3 is finished.


*looks at PS2, Wii, DS, x360* 

I don't get it...

You can't be serious. Piracy does have a significant impact on those platforms, it just doesn't hurt larger games because they are aimed at a more mainstream audience that have little to do with piracy.

Using the 360 and Wii as an example, games like Alan Wake, Dante's Inferno, Prototype, Dirt 2, Punch-Out!!, Red Steel 2 and Kirby's Epic Yarn have all been hurt by piracy. These are just some of the most downloaded games, so we don't know about all those other smaller releases that have come out throughout the years that could have suffered. 

http://torrentfreak.com/call-of-duty-black-ops-most-pirated-game-of-2010-101228/

http://torrentfreak.com/the-most-pirated-games-of-2009-091227/

Due to how easy piracy is on the PS3 now (no need for hardware modifications) then it could be a much worse situation. I like that smaller releases like 3D Dot Game Heroes, Demons Soul's and White Knight Chronicles can sell well on the PS3 and I also like that games with strong single player campaigns (God of War 3, Uncharted: Drakes Fortune, Infamous and Heavy Rain) can survive in this market, the same can't be said for the 360 and Wii, which is pretty much a death-trap for shorter single player games and the niche. Piracy does affect the 360, Wii and even the PS2, just because the larger games can survive in that sort of situation, it doesn't mean that smaller releases have the same sort of chance at being at least profitable. 

PIRACY DEFENSE SQUAD ACTIVATE!

but but piracy doesn't hurt games sales, look at black ops thats everything. Black ops=every game