And I guarantee a lot, if not most, of those people didn’t even have Switches. If Nintendo had released a PC version they would have sold a ton more.
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celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days agoI agree with you, but Nintendo’s sales are definitely hurt meaningfully by piracy. Over a million people downloaded TOTK when it leaked.
samus12345@lemmy.world 3 days ago
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
So what you’re saying is not only did they not buy a game, they also didn’t buy the system the game was developed for. So it definitely hurt Nintendo’s bottom line.
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 3 days ago
But that’s on Nintendo. For those people the game doesn’t cost $70, it costs $200+ even if they buy a used Switch lite. Nintendo is deliberately leveraging their games to make people buy their console when those people just want to buy the game.
They want to have their cake and eat it too, and that is most likely one of the biggest reasons people pirated TOTK.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
leveraging their games to make people buy their console when those people just want to buy the game
That’s the whole point of exclusive titles and every console vendor does it.
samus12345@lemmy.world 3 days ago
No, because if they wanted a Switch, they would have bought one.
Entropywins@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I was one of them but I also had my physical game pre-ordered so…
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I would expect the people that bought a physical copy but pirated it anyway to be the minority, but we’ll never know.
lunarul@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If I download a pirated game it’s because I don’t intend to pay for it. It’s a choice between pirating and not playing it at all. Sometimes I like the game so much that I do end up buying a legit copy too, but that wouldn’t have happened if I didn’t get to play it first.
For Switch in particular it’s because I’m a PC gamer and can’t get used to playing games on console. I do own a Switch, but I find it inconvenient to use vs the PC. I played a lot more on the emulator than I did on the real thing.