hmm no, it was the ps2 that killed it, dreamcast was released much later than ps1 and n64.
Gaming Do you think upcoming piracy will lead the console to EOL soon?
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In fact they are the most sold Ninty consoles and had very good life spans although being raped by pirates.
@OP: You might think that if you pirate and tell all your friends to pirate you made a company die but that's not the case. There are enough people which either are afraid of hacking their consoles, don't care or don't even know it could be done and they are buying enough games.
I'm not telling you to pirate. I'm just telling you as it is.
The only system that I can personally say is even close the switch in the ease of piracy would be the dreamcast. Even piracy didn't kill that Sega did. Nintendo hardware in the portable space has always been pirate friendly, And has never hurt the system.
The PSP and the NDS had some of the most rampant piracy scenes in console/handheld history.
The PSP sold 82 million units.
The NDS sold 152 million.
They both had countless games, and they almost always sold fantastically.
Piracy, even rampant piracy, which the Switch clearly doesn't have (yet), has never killed a console or handheld. Only one that came close was the Dreamcast, and up against the rest of the Sixth Generation (specifically the PS2), the failure of the Saturn, and a poor post-launch library, it clearly died for many other reasons.
Games are still selling astoundingly well worldwide, and the Switch is still selling like hot cakes, beating the Japanese lifetime sales of the PS Vita this week, thanks to a big sales push by Smash and Pokemon Let's Go.
When the Switch dies, it will not be because of piracy.
The PSP sold 82 million units.
The NDS sold 152 million.
They both had countless games, and they almost always sold fantastically.
Piracy, even rampant piracy, which the Switch clearly doesn't have (yet), has never killed a console or handheld. Only one that came close was the Dreamcast, and up against the rest of the Sixth Generation (specifically the PS2), the failure of the Saturn, and a poor post-launch library, it clearly died for many other reasons.
Games are still selling astoundingly well worldwide, and the Switch is still selling like hot cakes, beating the Japanese lifetime sales of the PS Vita this week, thanks to a big sales push by Smash and Pokemon Let's Go.
When the Switch dies, it will not be because of piracy.
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Switch has way more piracy than Wii U did in it's first year and a half (the Wii U had none it was unhackable until Loadiine came along) and has already outsold the lifetime sales of Wii U.
Considering that "logic" is partly taking past examples and deriving cause and effect into a conclusion, I would say yes.
Bad games or no games? Because if we go by the mountain of shovelware the DS had...
And because of this some devs stoped releasing games for the psp
So to say that piracy doesn't affect the consoles life isn't true when it affects the devs willing to make games for the console.
Assuming it is hardware driven rather than emulation driven (though there is probably still an argument there, the GBA era providing a nice case study) then as we don't typically see clone consoles or high volumes of ghost shift consoles before the console is done you kind of need to buy the console to play the game, ergo console sales go up.
Ever heard of the 3DS?
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omg, I didn't realize this thread had 8 pages. Please stop bumping this. unwatched.
My 2 cents is that when I was a kid nobody would use to buy games, everybody used to rent them for the weekend, and rental houses had almost all cartridges pirated. I don't see Mega Drive dying due to piracy or rented games. Same goes for N64 era.
I didn't have them, but there simply was no PSX or PS2 consoles available for buying that weren't cracked. There were no original games anywhere. 100% was pirated. PS2 is the most selling console ever and a complete commercial success.
I've bought a used and hacked PS3, and had never bought it. It has just a few exclusive games that are far from being fun, compared to what I have on my Steam account.
At the same time I bought a new WiiU and hacked it, it was many more fun games than PS3. It flopped.
So, yeah, don't worry with Switch being hacked. Piracy don't affect console success at all.
I didn't have them, but there simply was no PSX or PS2 consoles available for buying that weren't cracked. There were no original games anywhere. 100% was pirated. PS2 is the most selling console ever and a complete commercial success.
I've bought a used and hacked PS3, and had never bought it. It has just a few exclusive games that are far from being fun, compared to what I have on my Steam account.
At the same time I bought a new WiiU and hacked it, it was many more fun games than PS3. It flopped.
So, yeah, don't worry with Switch being hacked. Piracy don't affect console success at all.
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