Sparker Wrote:

SchmilK Wrote:Part of the problem I see in calculating impact is most pirates buy the console for the sole reason of piracy...if there was not the ability to download and play, I assume a majority of people would never considering buying it, so now they sold an extra console that was never going to be sold.

Right, but the retailers and game developers don't get money for every console sold now do they?

And also the fact that the game developers have to pay the console maker to publish the game on their console. In short, console makers really don't have it that bad.