Comments on: How much will game theft harm the Xbox 360?

By: Arvind

Arvind — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:48:14 +0000

Microsoft need to bring a budgetery Xbox 360 for Asian countries bcauz man spends his expenditure of 4 months on it and games are too costly in India so Microsoft should think on it

By: avin

avin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:32:17 +0000

come on, what will you say if a God of War cd costs as much a person lives, eats and supports himself for a whole month in India and other Asian countries.
they need to cut down the prices to prevent this.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:11:30 +0000

“if you try to compare PC gaming to console gaming nowadays you’d get transported to an insane asylum.”

Right. Because the PC is still the platform with the single largest user base on the planet. And because the most succesfull game this year will be a PC exclusive (or, more specificly, an addon). Oh, and never mind the gigantic homebrew/causual-gaming scene.

PC *gaming* is in better shape than ever. Now, the PC *games industry*…. that’s another story.

By: David Macphail

David Macphail — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:27:51 +0000

“Just look at how well PC gaming is doing with reported 90% piracy ratings on some games”

I’m assuming that was an irony statement there???

PC gaming has been in a tremendous decline for the past 5 – 10 years…….if you try to compare PC gaming to console gaming nowadays you’d get transported to an insane asylum.

However if the level of piracy on the DS is really that high…….considering the DS’s sales figures i don’t think the 360 has too much to worry about.

NES owns da PC!!!

By: Trueh

Trueh — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:32:48 +0000

In Asia, almost all PS2 games are pirated to play on a modded PS2. It didnt harm the developers, it didnt harm Sony (in fact, they sold more consoles because of that). The developers know this fact, that there will be people who pay for the originals and people who get the pirated and I think their sum favours the paying part. Just like the PC games. With multiplatforms games being developed nowadays, and franchise licences(figures, books, merchandises), I guess the devs are actually fatter not thinner. My view anyway…

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:05:20 +0000

I have legally purchased over 40 games for the Xbox360. Sometimes I can’t believe myself. Help me with my addiction, Santa.

By: Corvux

Corvux — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:48:50 +0000

Yea, but xbox360 sells alot more games than any plataform, wii sell a lot of consoles but not games thas a really problem because of piracy,DS sell a lot of hanhelds but no games because of R4 types of cards, dont be a dumb ass PS3 is loosing, dont sell to many consoles and games too. You PS3 FANBOY.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:37:21 +0000

Interesting article though it’s not called stealing. You keep making comments about being a thief and stealing games but that’s just not true. The game is never stolen. If you call it stealing then a friend lending out a game to another friend is stealing since that’s one less sale for the publisher.
In-fact you should also go after the shops that rent out games.
I don’t own a chipped 360 but I don’t feel sorry for anyone, especially those who charge ridiculous amounts for DLC and halt the online section of that game for those who didn’t pay(more!) to get the DLC.

By: xino

xino — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:12:29 +0000

Why can’t developers just allow us to download a game via Marketplace, if we want to pay/buy a game, all we have to do is buy the serial code!

Can’t remember, but I read some article that some company are doing it for PC games, people will buy the serial number instead and they will download thee full game online.

Allow us to buy serial codes for a game at a shop or online, once purchased we can then use it on the specific game we downloaded.

Only downfall for this is heavy use of bandwidth.

By: Wes

Wes — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:31:03 +0000

There will always be pirates. Like there will always be prostitutes,traffic jams,a qq in a bank ect ect ect….

Game developers do feel the sales but thats why they have dlc to still make a profit of games and i find that ingenuis. If it original or pirated they still make $$$ of the downlaodable content available on xbox live so they still go home happy but as happy as they would of been if the game wasnt pirated to start with. IT wont effect the 360 in the slightest