Sony’s War on Makers, Hackers, and Innovators

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Kasz216 said:

alekth said:

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.

2-3 months is like Brazil.  Possibly higher.

As for that post on gaf... I'm supposed to believe someone who probably worked as a stock boy in the equilvent of a best buy about the numbers sold in Bulgaria?   It's a shame we don't have a breakdown for software like we do hardware.  I just remember people on this site who claimed 95% sales in Iberia were PS3 related.  Didn't end up that way in reality.

Aside from which, you keep making arguements which include pricing, or past pricing structure... which would be irrelevent when it comes to piracy.

If a game cost 2-3 months of wages that would imply the console cost over a year of salary.

So it's safe to assume that for those owners of console it isn't 2-3 months of salary....

The consoles being priced as they are, if you can afford the console, you can afford a few games/year...

Besides in countries like Brazil there is a decent sized middle class. They don't represent as huge a percentage of the population as in Wertern economies, but Brazil population being much bigger, the middle sized class still represent several dozen million of families...