Bandorr said:
Sure. If you buy the game. And really the point of the games is to get you to buy their console. And their controllers. And their services etc. What percent of people that will "emulate" these games - own a PS3/Ps4? What percentage will even bother to buy the game? That percent that doesn't? Is pirating it. |
No, just no. If you regularly bought the game, you aren't a pirate if you run it on an emulator instead of on dedicated proprietary HW. Proprietary platforms work financially for platform owners because they get them royalties on SW, and they get them whenever you buy regular SW, even if you don't buy their HW. Some console makers even sell consoles at a loss for a long time. Moreover, even ruinning an emulator, gamedrs can still buy platform-specific controllers, anmd if they are first party, or 3rd party licensed ones, the platform owner will still get money, as they almost always get a far higher profit margin on peripherals than on consoles, even when the latter become profitable on HW. Not to mention that selling SW also to people not owning the HW increases the attach rate, making the platform more desirable for 3rd parties to develop for.
Last, but not least, whatever they try to make you believe, buying some SW doesn't create an obligation to buy the HW that supports it too, nor buying HW forces you to buy its SW (in this case, though, if you want to mod HW to run other SW, the firmware can't be the original one modified, it must be written from scratch, or, if possible, it must be done in a way that loads additional FW without modifying the original one, as almost always the original FW license doesn't allow unauthorised modifications, but you can still ditch it altogether or, if possible, run something else instead of it without modding it).
HW piracy would just apply if you bought an illegal, unlicensed clone console.
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