Video Game Piracy costs the industry as much as it makes!

[Burek]

ZhugeEX said:

Burek said:

But it'a not a good report because all it does is assume imaginary numbers. And overblows pirated numbers for their own purposes. 

What's your proof for that? Because it aligns with other independant report. Plus the company that estimated the revenue figure is very much respected for their prior reports. 

You can't just say they're making it up without actually looking into it more. 

 

But yeh, they are of course sensationalised a bit for the sake of the report. As other research firms estimate that as little as 5% of that revenue would actually go to the video game companies. So only 5% is the actual theoretical loss out of that total amount. $74b is just how much the overall cost is based on how much is pirated. 

I cannot follow you. First you ask me for proof that numbers are exaggerated, then in next sentence you yourself say that they are exaggerated.

As I said previously, they want to paint the picture of $160 billion being readily available to the industry, half of which is "stolen" by pirates.