Topic: Overal Sales

[nolimit19]

i think that as video games become more popular you will see the prices drop more.  

[mouse_clicker]

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Basically he says our economy is so big we can afford to pay, but they're to poor so it's perfectly fine for them to bootleg games, movies and cds.

Poverty is never an excuse for pirating because games, movies, and CD's are purely for entertainment and not essential to anyone's life. If you steal bread for your family because you can't afford it, that's justifiable, but games, movies, and CD's are in no way necessary to our lives and hence thinking it's okay to steal them because otherwise you don't have enough money is just a desperate excuse so you won't feel bad.  

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

A brand new copy of Street Fighter II for SNES at launch was $80 in the U.S. at various retailers.  I think I've seen the so called price drop.

[Ian Sane]

"If you steal bread for your family because you can't afford it, that's justifiable"

Say you have a very large family.
And say you're family don't like bread.  They like videogames.
And how about instead of giving them away you sold them at a price that was practically giving them away.
Would that be a crime?

[Mario]

http://cube.ign.com/articles/463/463155p1.html

Nintendo GameCube sold 1.1 million consoles in December and it's total US sales are now up to 6.8 million.

"The last number I have is from September, which is about 10.5 million units."

+ 165,000 (September US sales)
+ 254,000 (October US sales)
+ 748,800 (November US sales)
+ 1,100,000 (December US sales)
+ 550,000 (my estimate of how many GameCubes have been sold in Japan since September)

= 13,317,800 Nintendo GameCube consoles sold worldwide. (not counting sales from Europe, Australia, and other regions that aren't the US or Japan - since September)

I would assume GameCube is around 14 million worldwide if you add the non-existant European numbers.

[nolimit19]

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
"If you steal bread for your family because you can't afford it, that's justifiable"

Say you have a very large family.
And say you're family don't like bread.  They like videogames.
And how about instead of giving them away you sold them at a price that was practically giving them away.
Would that be a crime?

WHAHAHAHAHA

[Mario]

Sony claim that the PS2 has sold 70 million consoles worldwide.