If you could NOT copy games, would that make them cost less?

[Dark_Angel]

Ok, first up please don't mention anything about modding, sources of downloading stuff, or anything else to get my thread nuked

Lets pretend, that there is a new copy protection on this generation of consoles. It is literally impossible to break, IMPOSSIBLE. Do people think that games would actually cost less? a lot of people say that piracy increases the cost of games... but as I just brought Marvel Ultimate Alliance a few days ago, I seem to remember paying 40 50 for Saturn and Mega Drive (genesis for anyone in the USA) games.

I must admit, I dont have My 360 modded, and have no intention to. I dont mind paying for games that will give me a lot of fun, I just wonder if no one else pirated, would that make games cheaper, like the industry constantly claims, or is it a myth?

 

[Dark_Angel]

if we couldnt, chances are they would cost more. no competition from pirates makes it easier for them to charge whatever they like.

TBH, I had a feeling that would be the answer... kind of bad really isn't it

 

[Dark_Angel]

Broadening the topic just slightly, I do believe to a certain extent that pirated games add a certain "cool" factor to consoles. Look at the PS1 for example, and the Dreamcast with it's homebrew games. The DC was far to easy to play copies on though. No modding required, I wonder if that's one of the reasons Sega didn't get much backing for the DC (or at least it may have cut it down) afterall, Konami and others aren't going to want to create a game to see it copied in 5 minutes flat.

Somewhat changing to a different perspective, the Genesis was imported from the USA,and a slew of converters allowing you to play UK and Jap games were created, and the more "daring" invididuals used a hacksaw to at the plastic tabs that were added in the versions after the US, so they had a completely multi region machine. I have heard this increased the anticipation somewhat for people in the UK. After all, now they had been constantly hammered with talk from their friends and the magazines about the latest awesome games, like Sonic and Altered Beast.