nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 17 days agoPC Games Are Outselling Console Games, According to New Industry Reportwww.cnet.comexternal-linkmessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1217arrow-down12
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minus-squareAnivia@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·17 days agoPiracy is a lot more accessible on PCs than consoles
minus-squareace_of_based@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·17 days agoIf i count all the media I’ve consumed in the last 8-9 years as savings, piracy has paid the price of my 1000$ entertainment console PC so, so many times over.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·17 days agoPiracy doesn’t really decrease sales though, in fact it might increase them since it generates word of mouth from people who wouldn’t have bought it.
minus-squareKatana314@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days agoHow about we equate the nebulous uncertainty of those claims, since piracy arguments never have reliable motivator data. “Piracy might not decrease sales. In fact it might increase them.”
Piracy is a lot more accessible on PCs than consoles
If i count all the media I’ve consumed in the last 8-9 years as savings, piracy has paid the price of my 1000$
entertainment consolePC so, so many times over.Piracy doesn’t really decrease sales though, in fact it might increase them since it generates word of mouth from people who wouldn’t have bought it.
How about we equate the nebulous uncertainty of those claims, since piracy arguments never have reliable motivator data.
“Piracy might not decrease sales. In fact it might increase them.”