ferret1603 said:
How does it threaten the business anymore than buying second hand games? If person A buys a DS and 4 second hand games then Nintendo only makes money on the DS. If person B buys a DS and only plays ROMs on an R4 then Nintendo also only makes money on the DS. Seriously, please explain to me how piracy damages the industry any more than buying second hand games? Or renting for that matter.
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It most certainly hurts more than the second hand market. Lets look at both scenarios in a grander scheme. In scenario A Nintendo has sold at least 2 DSes and 4 games. In scenario B even if they had sold both Dses they have sold 0 games. The second hand market can only exist if people are buying the games. You have to have so many copies out there for them to be sold after someone else bought them. With piracy you need to sell one copy of the game and it can be redistrubeted infinitely. Second hand market still ensures a somewhat healthy number of games being sold while piracy just means you sell a copy unless the game data gets leaked.
