Nintendo Files Lawsuit Against HackYourConsole

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RenCutypoison said:

mii-gamer said:

RenCutypoison said:
DS was the most sold handeld in history.
It had the best SW/HW ratio of handeld's history.

And yet they say piracy killed the software sales on DS ?

A lot of people bought the console because it was easily hackable, and then bought the games that deserved their money. It made one of the most successful console ever.

Piracy is not loosing money. You don't pirate a game you want to buy, you pirate to try games you would not have bought otherwise.

It's been proven again and again.

Piracy is essentially stealing. Don't you think that is wrong? I know many individual that bought a psp and ds but never bought a single retail game for these consoles. In my opinion piracy is one of the reason the psp is doing reasonable right now.

Some does that. Not the majority.

For example, I'm a pirate. Mostly on PC and handelds. That said, I have an average of 35 games per console, all at full price on retail (I never buy used, I'm a collector).

The average SW/HW on home consoles is 9 games per console, 5 on handelds. I don't think that I'm killing the economy. (Games are 33% of my extra money, I can't do better, BTW)

It was proven multiple times that if you consume a lot of cultural products, it will make you buy  even more cultural products.

Look at the movie and music industry. Since the "Big piracy problem", it grew even stronger.

Example :

Theaters tickets revenue in 2000 : 7.48 bn$

2012 : 10.71 bn$

People tought VHS recording would kill the movie industry, that radio would kill music industry, that compact cassette would kill music too.

Let's remember that piracy for video games took another step on PSX. Look at the industry now, does it seems destroyed ?

That ticket revenue is a bad example because movie ticket prices at least here almsot doubled in 10 years yet the revenue hasn't