The "the person wouldn't buy it anyway" argument is strange, if the person is willing to pirate the material them they have interest in it, so it would be a matter of choice and priorities. Because if piracy were impossible what would he do them? Buy the thing. PS3 for several years had no piracy and people still bought it and the games.
duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363
Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994
Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."
