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[DarienA]

PSX = sold lots cause of piracy too..

People always make this claim.... I'd sure as hell like to see some verification on this.

 

[Odnetnin]

meh. Release burnable UMDs or go to hell Sony.

 

[Deleted member 284]

People always make this claim.... I'd sure as hell like to see some verification on this.

I would bet that Europe would be the primary group behind this claim.

 

[aoi tsuki]

actually, isnt Piracy a good thing for console-sales?`
More users who have the console = more developers will do games for it..

C64 = lots of piracy.. just needed a doubledecker to copy most games.
The result was that it was one of the most sold computers, and most gamedevelopers for it.

Amiga was the same.. it dies cause of those Doom-games unfortunatly..

PSX = sold lots cause of piracy too..

But when you sell your hardware for a loss and pirates obviously aren't buying games, about the only thing you have to fall back on are accessory sales. After a pirate buys a second controller and maybe a memory card, you're not going to see any profit from them.

 

[Miburou]

The PS1's attach ratio in Europe, while lower than either that in NA or Japan, was still a healthy 6.8 games per system.