[QUOTE="jremi"] The real question is, of these people downloading pirated copies how many would have bought retail copies if pirating were impossible? I admit at one time I had a modded PSP and I would download everything I could JUST BECAUSE I COULD. I rarely ever played the games. I sold that PSP and recently bought another and since I have bought 6 games (in the past 3 months) I play my PSP more than I ever had before.
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This is 100% true. And in some ways, I think that piracy might actually increase sales, as hard as that is to believe. Think about it, if someone who doesn't know what certain games are like and just downloads every game that cames out, they may actually try out a few of those games, appreciate the game, and eventually buy it. This probably isn't true about everyone, but I'm sure there are tons of people like jremi who just downloaded for the heck of it and never actually play through it. If these same people download game after game, you may have a large % of people who download, never get around to playing, and therefore they never even use the product in a sense. It sits on the internet anyways, who cares if it just sits on PCs all over the world and never gets used. Let them waste Harddrive space and bandwidth if they want I say.
I certainly put my money towards the PSP. I own 99 PSP UMD games- that's right, all with case, manual, and UMD. Crisis Core will be #100 for me.
Also, I can't remember how many PSPs have been sold anymore, but lets say its at 10 million. If 10 million people have the PSP, and 200,000 people download the game...that's still 9.8 millions possible people to buy the game. If Sony isn't getting enough sales on their games, it is their own fault with bad marketing, cruddy games or ports that people aren't interested in, or maybe something completely different. Really, pirates are only putting a scratch on the PSP's bad sales..there is SO much more to look into.
Ok first of all let me say that is one badass collection. And I totally agree with you, I just wonder if the devs. do too. I still think it's sad though that so many people have to pirate games. I don't and I still find a way to pay for them, I only work part time, go to school, pay when I go out with my friends, pay for gas and pay for my car and if I can still afford games so should just about everybody else. Well thats my opinion anyway.
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