Just how much is PS4 beating Xbox One in sales this year?

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Slarvax said:

COKTOE said:

There are a few points of contention among your comments to be sure. This one, it makes me have to massage my temples to relieve stress. Do you believe that? That those 2 systems sold well due to the fact they could play pirated games? Because that's what you said, and it's what I just repeated. You know that the Dreamcast had a prolific pirate scene, right? So did the original Xbox. I'll leave it at that and wish you a happy weekend.

On emerging markets, he's right. Talking from first hand experience. I didn't know a single person that didn't have a pirated PS1 or PS2 in Venezuela. It's not a huge number by any means (I would say something like 10% of total sales? Probably less), but he isn't completely wrong.

Not a knock on you but I can't help but wonder how skewed your and others perception might be about this. PS1 was in the 90s, and required a CD burner, a mod chip or specific cheat devices, but most importantly internet access at the. So emerging markets couldn't really play a major role in piracy for PS1 when many emerging markets didn't have consistent or reliable or widespread internet access at that time. I know that here in the states, Internet was not everywhere in the 90s and we were stuck on dial up 56k which is slow as molasses. There's just no way that piracy was really a factor, anywhere at the time. 10% would be massive to me. I'd argue that That percent is much much smaller, but the people who did pirate did so disproportionately.

Can't say I'm sure what all is required for pirating on the PS2 but THAT would require a DVD burner and probably DSL. Two things that also were still being developed and not entirely common.