It's a combination of factors really. Kind of like how there was no gamecube mod until several years into the GCs life. There was a way to play copied games before that, but it was complicated. Sony learned their lesson and took away some of the reason people had to mod their consoles by making games region free and allowing users to install linux. In addition to that, a good part of the ps3's library is shared with the x360, meaning that those who are looking to play copied games could just play them on the already hacked 360. It's not like the ps2 where most of best games of the generation were on that console and nowhere else. The tech clearly makes it hard to hack as well... though I just think the motivation isn't what it was with the ps2.

Had the ps3 been as dominant as the ps2 last gen with as many exclusives, there would have been some sort of solution out there for copied games by now. It may have been incredibly complicated though.

Uh...you do realize that pretty much all consoles/handhelds rely on software sales to make money?

Ahem; I believe I said "Sony rely so heavily on software sales to make up for losses on hardware". That's a very different statement from "Sony rely on software sales to make up for losses on hardware".

Yes, it's normal for software sales to make up for a lack of profit (or even a loss) on hardware, but with the PS3, AFAIK, the situation has been worse than with the other consoles (in this generation), so the need to sell as much software as possible for every unit of hardware has been greater. I didn't say that the PS3 was the only console that has relied on software sales, just that it's more of an issue for the PS3 than the others in this generation because the loss Sony has taken on each PS3 seems to have been greater than the losses for the others (at any rate, a lot more has been made of the high manufacturing cost of the PS3 in the news than the cost of the 360 or Wii, although the higher retail price of the PS3 and calls for a price cut have no doubt increased the media coverage).

Well I don't think it's that much more heavily than the other console manufacturers, but I guess it is more of an issue for Sony than the others, in the same sense that 1.01 is "more" than 1.00...

There's no evidence that COD4 sold little on PC. Unless Activision releases the figures, we can only estimate.

What I can tell you is that, COD4 dominated Steam and D2D for months, and dominated on retail for months on and off. It was above Crysis in every chart imaginable, and guess what, Crysis sold 1 million in just 45 days (plus another 500k in the first six months).

Stalker, for example, barely even showed up in any top chart, but it has sold over 2 millions and is probably on it's way to 3 millions lifetime.

Are you telling me that COD4 sold in the same level of Stalker and Crysis?!

Good riddance, no one cares about IW anymore on PC. They screwed up badly and now are taking the losses.

Source?

frankly im glad CODMW2 was pirated so badly, remove a standard PC game feature and act like its nothing, let the game rot in the eyes of PC gamers. Ill take my CS, DOD, BF, and Unreal any day of the week.

@Shio

I'm not going to bother with sources.  I've showed you them all before.  They have released numbers on many occasions which only left 1-3 million possible for the PC version.  You know this.  You just can't accept it and instead make wild assumptions based off of rankings in a few digital distribution rankings.  No hard figures, no hard facts, all speculation.

No, they didn't. This was debunked already.

When they released that COD4 sold 7 millions it was only the sales of a few select countries. Consoles only had sold around 5 millions in those countries, leaving 2 millions for PC, and we are not even counting the PC sales of dozens of PC-centric countries that weren't included AND digital sales.

The truth is Acitivision is hidding the real number of PC sales as they are using those profit to fund their secret operations in Area 51.............

There's no reasoning with Shio, don't even try he lives in his own special world( where every game on PC sells million units, piracy has no effect on companies profit at all and billions of games are sold every year on Steam).

You're obviously not getting my point and secondly I do not respond to ad hominem attacks. The The 360 was at a somewhat fair market price the instant it launched. The PS3 was nowhere in that ballpark and took it three years just to reach market price. This makes it easier for hackers and potential pirates to mod and get their hands on newer games. The PS3 firmware has long since been cracked (in 2007).  The main reason it isn't spreading like the 360 is because the 360 is DVD-9 and the PS3. Recording Blu Ray discs would cost just under actual sales price to copy/burn (somewhere around $40). The size of the disc space also hurts the need for piracy on a PS3. Third of all, if you are caught with a hacked PS3 game Sony will ban you. For the few people who are dumb enough to do that it wont be hard enough for Sony to wipe the slate clean with them. Microsoft have/ and continue to axe plenty of people, but when it starts the bug is hard to stop.

Sony is just as bad as Microsoft. The only difference is its pointless to burn blu ray discs. It's just too expensive. You know nothing of what you speak, especially if you believe their firmware hasn't been hacked.