Naughty Dog co-founder: “We’ve lost millions to Piracy”

[Kasz216]

Carl2291 said:

Kasz216 said:

A million... over all there games would probably be pushing it honestly.

It's not like piracy in the first world has ever been that big a deal for consoles.

It's all been in countries where a videogame roughly costs the same as a month's worth of food.

Plus, outside the Uncharted games... which have almost no piracy... what big games did they ever have?

The Crash games, but outside of one of them, all the big ones were on the PS2.... where again, piracy was pretty small in the western world.  What with internet connections still being in the stone ages.

I actually think there are probably very few console games that have lost "millions" of sales... and probably all revolve around Football (Both kinds) and Call of Duty.

The first 3 Crash Bandicoot games were huge.

Piracy on the original PlayStation was really huge, it wasn't everyone downloading it was everyone getting it on disc with a chipped console. PlayStation piracy was easy to do and at least in the UK, everyone I know who had a PlayStation had it chipped.

All together, the 3 Crash games were probably pirated way over a Million times. Possibly each.

As for your last statement, a LOT of console games get pirated to this day I'll post links.

http://torrentfreak.com/the-most-pirated-games-of-2009-091227/
http://gamepolitics.com/2010/12/29/most-pirated-games-2010
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/12/31/these-are-the-most-pirated-games-of-2011.aspx

seems like a REALLY specific subjective situation to me.   I could eaisly note that I knew nobody with a chipped PS1.  Or PS2... only piracy ever being chipped Xboxes.

Also... that's not a lot.

It mor or less proves my point. 

The number of copies pirated that would of restulted in actual sales is generally very small and those piracy numbers are actually extremly small compared to other media.

Compare.

http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-pirated-movies-of-2009-091220/