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HappySqurriel on 05 February 2012
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Jumpin said:

Piracy,

When it comes to used games, selling off an old version of an annual sports title makes a player more likely to buy a newer more up to date version.

 

Saying piracy doesn't damage the industry is complete bullshit, look at how the music industry colapsed as a result of piracy.

 


Take CD sales and remove the portion of people who were buying albums they already owned on Cassette or Record and compare that to the sales of music today. The reason this is an important control is that moving from CD to digital could be done in an entirely legal and moral way by ripping your CD to MP3.


While you may not believe/accept it, one of the main driving factors of producing new formats has been to re-sell content to people that they already own. A large portion of people's Blu-Ray collection will be made up of movies they owned on DVD, and their DVD collection will be made up of a lot of movies they owned on VHS, their CD collection is made up of albums they owned on Cassette, and their cassette collection is made up of albums they owned on vinyl. The problem with this strategy is that you will eventually produce a high enough quality (probably digital) medium that completely eliminates the need to upgrade to a new format again.

Last time I saw the analysis the deciline in sales associated with "piracy" could just as easily be explained by people having no need to re-buy albums they owned on CD.