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How would selling some cheap software to pirate all their games impact sales positively? Sure, they'd sell the emulator cheap and maybe make some money there (a
by vel0city 3y ago
How would selling some cheap software to pirate all their games impact sales positively? Sure, they'd sell the emulator cheap and maybe make some money there (and hopefully not have people just pirate that), but then they'd just be enabling people to no longer pay for their $60/ea games which is a major part of what they make money on.
- emodendroket 3y agoThey could probably bake DRM into the emulator (or... just release the games as PC games, with DRM) but it's not really clear why they wouldn't want to lock people into their ecosystem, especially when, unlike their competitors, they even make a profit on the hardware sales.