Piracy to Doom the 360?

Piracy has been an issue as long as games have been around, but considering the rising cost of developing games, can developers afford to ignore it any longer.  In the past two weeks three major torrents have been leaked onto the internet:  Fallout 3, Far Cry 2, and now Gears of War 2.  The fact that two of these titles are multi-platform makes it even more interesting.

[Dark Collosis]

Well it was even MORE common on the PS1 and PS2.. Did it kill them?? Thank you come again.

[UNCyrus]

Kill them? no... However, the other options on the market had piracy issues of their own... However, this is not the case right now... Only one of these two consoles on the market has a piracy issue. So, before you bash a blog, why don't you re-read it and see what I was actually talking about.

[AuToFiRE]

but that was back in the day when there were no real enforcement on it, when gmaes only cost 5 digit resources to produce a game, now it is in the tens of millions of dollars to produce games, developers cant afford piracy anymore

[rko_kero]

I think your right. You cant compare this to ps2 though because 100 Mil consoles does not compare to the 20 Xbox has now. Blu Ray now is safe option, and if the PS3 gets closer in sales, this might become a big problem.

[outlawlife]

definitely not

other consoles have been way easier to pirate and they flourished

average consumer isn't going to know the workings of 360 piracy, the only places it has any major effect are contries where piracy runs rampant like india and china

[UNCyrus]

The point is that 360 is susceptible to piracy, while the PS3 has yet to have it's discs cracked. There has never been a point before where one console was at risk while the other was not. So... why wouldn't you go to the safe console if you were a developer?

[andyboy13]

Now why is it that piracy on the PC is a huge reason people say games should be made console exclusive, yet when piracy is rampant on the consoles, it's no big deal?

[outlawlife]

because you don't have to mod a pc to play pirated games?

[ultimolu]

No one liked a pirate stealing their games so you have a point.

[highps3]

Just look at the amount of torrents...

Its really not hard to mod your console, if you get banned you can unban..
Ive honestly considered it.. Only down side is you void your warranty which with the 360 burning down houses dont know if i wanna take that chance..

[elorm9]

True... RRoD only makes things worse if you take the risk.

[Isaac]

Hopefully that will force Microsoft to release a new Xbox, one that is actually *complete* and not half next-gen and half last-gen. Had they used HD-DVD this wouldn't be happening and games would be complete on both platforms. Hell, had Microsoft made the 360 45GB or even 60GB HD-DVD capable, I might have opted to make the 360 my console of preference (well, that and also HDMI 1.3, and reliability).

[TheOtherSide]

Even do X360 has a piracy issue it sells more than the PS3.

For a developer it is terrible to see its product be used with out profit but that don't mean it would sell that much (see PS3).

The problem here is money and greed.

I have both systems, but 360 is my favourite (but I do hate M$)

PS: the wii has been pirated but its crap, M$ and sony need to copy (pirate) the wii mote ; )) lol

[socomnick]

piracy isnt that rampant on the 360. Not a big amount of sales is lost from piracy.