Because of the pirate games. Yes you heard me pirate games. In the country that copyright protection law is not very strict like America ( China, SE Asia and others 3rd world country ) where you can get 3 PS2 games for about 4$ only with the same quality with original games. I myself have 3 copies of GoW, 2 FFXII, 2 RE4 and 2 MGS 3 ( I have more than one becuse I`m not very careful person ). With 100 PS2 users worldwide I`m 100% believe PS2 AAAA titles sales are larger than any best selling games in the past gen.....Of course with pirate game sales...
Because of the pirate games. Yes you heard me pirate games. In the country that copyright protection law is not very strict like America ( China, SE Asia and others 3rd world country ) where you can get 3 PS2 games for about 4$ only with the same quality with original games. I myself have 3 copies of GoW, 2 FFXII, 2 RE4 and 2 MGS 3 ( I have more than one becuse I`m not very careful person ). With 100 PS2 users worldwide I`m 100% believe PS2 AAAA titles sales are larger than any best selling games in the past gen.....Of course with pirate game sales...Heri012
Well definately a lot more people have played the games...... but it doesn't matter much if the creators don't gain money. I'm all for pirating if you can't afford it though... no point in keeping you from digital goods that cost nothing to reproduce.
makes sense... iv seen an absolute MONSTER LOAD of PS2s, especially around here in south-east asia at those little tucked away stores where they sell virtually copy everything... quite amazing
As you Americans say" Well duhhh!" or something like that.
Everyone knows about this. Are you going to tell me that out of 120 million pS2 owners "only" 2 million played God of War? Or "only" 4 million played MGS games? Yeah wright. Much more of PS2 owners played those games but they played pirat games on modded PS2. And this is not surprise. Same story was on PS1(probably one of the reason why that system was so popular-mod your PS1 and play hunders of awesome games), same was with Dreamcast(one of the reasons why system flopped, you didnt even need to mod Deamcast, you just needed boot disc, later on you didnt even need that). Same with Xbox, gamecube. Same is with 360 and Wii and probably soon PS3. Blue Ray could slow that process but it will happened.
You also forgot used game sales which don't count or give developers any money. This market is huge. I myself am guilty of buying probably about 20 used games myself from eb/gamestop.
Piracy is a problem for all consoles/handhelds and not just the PS2. Although it's a possibility it might affect the PS2 more than other consoles it still isn't a factor we can use to support/hate on a console. Personally I've never pirated games, I much prefer to buy the game. One thing that really caught my attention was a couple years back when I moved to Spain, when I got here I found out that literally EVERYONE pirates games... I mean one of the first questions they ask about a new system is "Can I pirate it?"... (Besides how noobish that sounds because everything can pretty much be pirated I just lol'ed, seriously if they couldn't pirate their consoles I really doubt they would buy games.)
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