there has been alot of talk about how piracy is dramatically hurting the psp. (i don't pirate games by the way) but as i recently heard in another thread, the TC said that the worldwide sales of the psp so far is 33 million. so devs would still make a lot of profit developing more games for the psp. i remember reading in a article that theres around 200,000 piraters on the psp. (not if thats true) but if it is, thats still great number of potential sales.
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IMO Piracy doesn't hurt the PSP. The pirates would still need to buy a PSP to run the software & play the games, so it doesn't hurt Sony that much. It also gives Sony much more console sales because in 3rd world countries w/c the average salary is $2 a day buying games would be like paying for luxury. It helps the sales because people from this countries just needs to buy the system itself & not worry about the games. Piracy just hurts the game developers but not the system developers, I mean if I had the money, I would buy the games but if you don't, what choice do you have? watch tv.
IMO Piracy doesn't hurt the PSP. The pirates would still need to buy a PSP to run the software & play the games, so it doesn't hurt Sony that much. It also gives Sony much more console sales because in 3rd world countries w/c the average salary is $2 a day buying games would be like paying for luxury. It helps the sales because people from this countries just needs to buy the system itself & not worry about the games. Piracy just hurts the game developers but not the system developers, I mean if I had the money, I would buy the games but if you don't, what choice do you have? watch tv.
4dry4n
what? no one in a 3rd world country on a third world salary would be able to buy a psp , or would for that amtter as their would be other things to take priority over games. Further more , piracy isn't crippling the psp all too much
IMO Piracy doesn't hurt the PSP. The pirates would still need to buy a PSP to run the software & play the games, so it doesn't hurt Sony that much. It also gives Sony much more console sales because in 3rd world countries w/c the average salary is $2 a day buying games would be like paying for luxury. It helps the sales because people from this countries just needs to buy the system itself & not worry about the games. Piracy just hurts the game developers but not the system developers, I mean if I had the money, I would buy the games but if you don't, what choice do you have? watch tv.
4dry4n
Sony collects royalties though, on all games sold for the system. In this sense it does affect them.
IMO Piracy doesn't hurt the PSP. The pirates would still need to buy a PSP to run the software & play the games, so it doesn't hurt Sony that much. It also gives Sony much more console sales because in 3rd world countries w/c the average salary is $2 a day buying games would be like paying for luxury. It helps the sales because people from this countries just needs to buy the system itself & not worry about the games. Piracy just hurts the game developers but not the system developers, I mean if I had the money, I would buy the games but if you don't, what choice do you have? watch tv.
sky_fira
what? no one in a 3rd world country on a third world salary would be able to buy a psp , or would for that amtter as their would be other things to take priority over games. Further more , piracy isn't crippling the psp all too much
They could buy the system alone. I came from one & I am from a middle class family I got a Ps1 & Ps2 as a present from my parents, but other than that there is no means for me to buy a game but maybe just one or two but that's it. Imagine owning a gaming system with 1 game that would suck.
IMO Piracy doesn't hurt the PSP. The pirates would still need to buy a PSP to run the software & play the games, so it doesn't hurt Sony that much. It also gives Sony much more console sales because in 3rd world countries w/c the average salary is $2 a day buying games would be like paying for luxury. It helps the sales because people from this countries just needs to buy the system itself & not worry about the games. Piracy just hurts the game developers but not the system developers, I mean if I had the money, I would buy the games but if you don't, what choice do you have? watch tv.
4dry4n
You might be right that Sony will still profit from the sale of PSPs, but I think the original point was about game developers and their profits getting lower due to piracy. They don't make money because someone bought a PSP, they make it from the sales of their games. People steal the game = no profit for the developer = no more incentive to develope for the PSP.
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