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HappySqurriel on 26 February 2011
Games4Fun said:


Doesnt mean a lot of those games would not have done a bit better. Sure not every stolen game would have been a sell anyways, but some would and we have no way of knowing how much better or worse sells could have been. People said the same crap about the music industry. Well, it is nothing like it once was. They have less money to invest in the non mainstream stuff that many people still enjoyed. When the gaming industry becomes even more mainstream games only these people and there supporters are to blame.


I would say that there is a significant difference between the music and videogame industries ...

Piracy changed how people consumed music, and changed the value people saw in music, and the music industry never adapted to these changes. Before Napster, people were very careful of the music they bought because it was relatively expensive and (for the most part) people had been burned by buying an album that only had one good song on it. Because of Napster, people started downloading everything they could get their hands on; and people were trying genres and artists that they never had interest in before.

Today people want to have access to a lot of music that is very diverse but still want to pay the $10 ro $20 per month that they were before Napster. In response to this, the music industry is selling albums on a per-song basis for more than they were in the 1990s even though the costs of selling that album are dramatically lower. As a result, a lot of generally honest people steal music rather than buy it.



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Mad55 on 26 February 2011

as long as its not 3ds games its not to serious.



dsister on 26 February 2011
HappySqurriel said:


I'm not sure that is entirely true ...

I firmly reject the claim (by some) that 1 pirated game is the same as 1 game sale lost; and I believe a better estimate would probably 100 pirated games is the same as 1 game sale lost. The problem is that software pirates are not nearly as demographically diverse as the rest of the population, and the tend to fall into the "core gamer" demographics., and this results in certain kinds of software being hurt far more by piracy than others. One thing I have noticed is that systems with weaker piracy protection (the PS2, Wii and Nintendo DS) tend to have weaker sales in "core" genres than their more difficult to pirate competition does; and the only exception to this would be the XBox 360, and that could be because the fear of being banned on XBox Live prevents core gamers from pirating games.

I don't want to be one of "those guys" but those consoles you listed aren't exactly the most "hardcore". The Wii has never had that much success with "hardcore" games as any of the other consoles. And what exactly constitutes a hardcore game on the DS? The only one that comes to mind on the DS that really didn't do so well was GTA which still sold over a million



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dsister on 26 February 2011
Games4Fun said:


...They have less money to invest in the non mainstream stuff that many people still enjoyed. When the gaming industry becomes even more mainstream games only these people and the supporters are to blame. Thus, they will have helped ruin the only hobby I have had since i was 3 or 4.


Umm. We are still talking about the DS here? You can find anything on this little beast



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Games4Fun on 26 February 2011
dsister said:
Games4Fun said:


...They have less money to invest in the non mainstream stuff that many people still enjoyed. When the gaming industry becomes even more mainstream games only these people and the supporters are to blame. Thus, they will have helped ruin the only hobby I have had since i was 3 or 4.


Umm. We are still talking about the DS here? You can find anything on this little beast


Notice how I said one day....



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Games4Fun on 26 February 2011
Ajescent said:
Games4Fun said:

One day these people are going to ruin gaming for everyone and those that support them will be just as much to blame.


But, it's totally for the Homebrew and Linux, nothing to do with pirating games, nuh-uh...no sir...totally for the Linux and, and, and playing 8-bit mario. nothing to do with pirating games...nuh-uh. no sir!


Uh huh I believe anyone who says that Uh Huh uh huh =0



IamAwsome on 26 February 2011
Xen said:
cyberninja45 said:

I heard a rumour that 3ds games cant even be copied from the cartridge.

They'll figure it out... they always do.

(Cough) Geohot(Cough)



Games4Fun on 26 February 2011
IamAwsome said:
Xen said:
cyberninja45 said:

I heard a rumour that 3ds games cant even be copied from the cartridge.

They'll figure it out... they always do.

(Cough) Geohot(Cough)

I t hink Geohot might be a bit busey for a bit lol



IamAwsome on 26 February 2011
Games4Fun said:
IamAwsome said:
Xen said:
cyberninja45 said:

I heard a rumour that 3ds games cant even be copied from the cartridge.

They'll figure it out... they always do.

(Cough) Geohot(Cough)

I t hink Geohot might be a bit busey for a bit lol


Well once the Sony executives stop raiding his house, he'll start hacking.



dsister on 26 February 2011
IamAwsome said:

(Cough) Geohot(Cough)


*cough* Geohot isn't a pirate*cough* *cough*



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