Instead of a Risk Assessor, he could be a Risk Denier. The "It's ok, guys" guy.

What - me worry?

Well in the case of me and my friends Your Mother we are certainly capable of pirating video games. We simply chose not to as we would prefer to support the industry. I'll admit that I do have roms of quite a few games, but they are only of games I own or of games that no longer work (for example my copy of Earthbound crapped out on me, so I keep the rom around for when I have a craving to play it). However, from my experience, I rarely meet people who understand these processes. The PSP I would say is an exception to the rule, because piracy is so simple on it. Home systems though I really don't see pirated much in America.

Those 3rd party developers shouldn't worry too much.
The PS3 will catch up eventually

^^^ yeah, with the dreamcast.

Back to the discussion, Piracy is very bad for the industry. In the PS1 days, all my friends pirated, and PS1 didn't kill the industry. I remember one of my friends sent his PS1 into Best Buy where they put the mod chip in for $25. Then, he just rented games and burned them.

Haha, thanks for the laugh :)

Oh my, are we on the precipice of a new trend in compensatory Wii bashing by the Sony Fanbdom? Wii PIRACY!!!

"It's harder to pirate games on the PS3 so developers will go with that instead!"

Do we even have any hard stats on how much piracy is occuring on any of them? How about the 360? Is that why it isn't doing so well in Japan? Piracy? Oh wow! Guess people are having to reach deeper and deeper into the barrel to get mud out for slinging.

Precisely. Can we agree console games are at least a tad bit less susceptible to piracy than general software? In particular for consoles that need to be soldered for it?

I think, the thing is, Piracy on consoles for the most part is commited by people who are either A) Very tech savvy, B) Very poor. Nintendo is aiming to curb piracy on the Wii with all sorts of different measures. I read somewhere there are already a few different versions of the Wii already released, which means to mod it, you need something different for each version. Could be wrong though.

The fact that piracy is rampant in 3rd world/2nd world countries just reflects that MOST software is made in 1st world countries, usually by the richer countries still. Why would Microsoft bother boxing up windows (for instance) and selling it in China if they could honestly only get $10 for it? Nintendo is actively trying to sell software to China and actually make money, but obviously it is very hard to do.