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

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ZhugeEX said:

Burek said:

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.

$74 billion is the total revenue that is generated from pirated games content.

However it's estimated that only around 5% of that revenue would actually go to the game industry should piracy not exist.

You get what I'm saying?

It's exagerrated in the sense that it does try and make it look like $160b industry as you say, but it's not exagerrated in the $74b number being the revenue that could be generated from all pirated game downloads. 

so where does the other 95% of the revenue go?