Some personal thoughts on piracy (warning - long post)

[Mjarr]

It does hold up when we're discussing consoles. We're talking degrees of profit here, not absolutes. The reason consoles have gotten so popular isn't because people suddenly found consoles and all their ridiculously expensive peripherals and subscriptions so appealing: it's more because the gaming industry has pushed them hard because they make more money than PC games.

Main reason why consoles are popular is because they are relatively speaking very simple to use and get into in the long run: Pick it up and start using. If you want Xbox live or something like that it's entirely optional. It's been that since the early Atari homeconsoles, it's not like someone suddenly changed the formulae of simple convenience. Sure PS3 is a rare exception for having nonexistant piracy, but on the other hand on Wii it's quite rampart while PSP is the most pirated console out there (sure it's a handheld but anyway) and DS is quite close being 2nd. Xbox being only 'moderate' on that aspect, so putting in perspective PC got stripped out of its "king of piracy" title quite some time ago. This might be also worth seeing:

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All it takes is a single second being connected to the internet and your console is virtually worthless.

Considering how cheap consoles are (relatively speaking) it doesn't take that much effort - if you have some sort of steady income - to have another console for that purpose, or maybe I am just thinking too deep into it. It's still quite common on consoles, even when people may brag less about it or if you go by the old joke of console players being 7-14 year old kids whose brain capacity is at hurr durr at most (which obviously is not true)

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