| DonFerrari said: Could but most likely won`t. Talking about piracy, with multiplayer that isn`t as common anymore in Brazil, plenty of legitimate stores now. Also not to disappoint you, but houses here are quite big, probably bigger than most average europe and japanese houses, and well most of the piracy occurs in the developed world, where were the pirated chips made, the p2p sites hosted the programs made, etc? I would say perhaps you have a very strong bias view based on your own life experiences. PS: Not to take a potshot at you, but your line of thought is very similar to the one of the MS executives saying Xbox One could sell 1 Billion units. https://www.vg247.com/xbox-one-microsoft-aims-for-1-billion-lifetime-sales-100-million-xbox-360-units It isn't just because you are going to a place with more population that you'll really sell there. Consoles have been selling on China over 1 Billion population but sales number are smaller than in Japan if I do remember it right. |
I did not suggest homes were small in Brazil, and I actually happen to know that they're not (I had a friend who spent a fair bit of time there). Here's what I said:
"The Series X, and especially the PS5, being larger is a bad thing in emerging markets where living spaces are often more compact."
I was speaking to the emerging markets where living spaces are often more compact, rather than all emerging markets in general. I was largely thinking of Asia when I said that, though you'll find some smaller residences (or larger residences with lots of people living in them) in all sorts of places, including some in the developed world.
China is a special case because console availability there is not as simple/broad as it would be in freer/less regulated countries such as India and Brazil (far from un-regulated, and with steep import fees in the case of Brazil, but still less regulated than China).
As for piracy, most of the software piracy is on the PC side of things in developed nations. Not sure about emerging markets. There was a thriving business being done in mod chips and bootleg games for consoles for a while in southeast Asia, and that happened in the developed world too but seemingly less so due to more law enforcement activity against it. I think it was a bit more common in parts of Europe, but relatively uncommon in Canada/U.S., and uncommon in general now as modern consoles are harder to hack. And to the degree that some are easier to jailbreak (I'm looking at you, Switch), higher incomes create less incentive to do so. But sure, you'll always see some piracy everywhere. It's just a matter of degrees.
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