alekth on 26 February 2011
2-3 months' wages is extreme for Europe, it would still be a fraction (though not such a small one) for the ones who would have invested in consoles, and arguably for young adults on a good job comparable or better than for Western teens . Music and films are cheaper still, still get pirated to hell and back. A lot of that frankly goes with mentality, partly with the latter two having had more prohibitive prices in the past, partly with the fact that not a lot was available for years after the Iron Curtain, plus pretty much non-existant control.
This was in a post on GAF a couple of weeks ago:
Plus, Sony are going to lose every small market they have now - I live in Bulgaria, and I used to work for the second biggest retailer in country. Almost 95% of console software sales in the country until now are coming from the PS3. Nobody play original Xbox 360 and Wii games in Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia etc. I'm thinking that Asia is also huge market for Sony - market that they will lose on software level if pirating full games becomes on PC and Dreamcast level easy.
