1. Yes.
2. No.
3, Games that are no longer in print or for sale on the open market.
4. Depends on what you're talking about. Games or otherwise? Sony has just started becoming profitable. Microsoft and Nintendo have been profitable for most of the time last gen and this gen.
5. No.
6. No. It's called being patient If I don't want to pay $60 for a game or can't afford it, I'll wait for the price to drop.
7. Not every, but most. The excuses that people give about pirating the game and they only buy it if they like it. I call complete bs on that.
8. I'd say there's a high probability you didn't pay for any of them.
9. They calculate pirated copies with what they'd make if it sold at full MSRP or whatever they're selling at the time of their calculations. Maybe a million at full MSRP, a million at 1/6 less.
10. Not all, but if you wanted to keep playing new games and no way to play them otherwise, you'd probably purchase some of them.
11. Developers would stop bitching about piracy. Also heavily pirated systems like the PSP would have received more games and more games that have already been created would have been localized in other regions because developers wouldn't be so afraid about piracy. Final Fantasy Type 0 for example.
12. Yes, No, Yes, Yes.
13. No idea.
14. Probably not.
15. No.
16. Piracy on a high enough level stops developers from creating or localizing new games. If the game doesn't meet sales, then piracy could have affected that, and on systems like the Dreamcast and PSP, it has. Piracy has stopped me from playing games in a language I can understand and owning games that I probably would have owned.
17. Games that are no longer in print and cannot be played otherwise.
| osed125 said:
7. No, for most games the actual sales are higher than illegal downloads (the only game I can remember that this isn't the case is Xenoblade, which the illegal downloads are higher than the sales on VGC). |
A lot of PSP sales are no where close to how many copies were pirated.
