It’s really not. Literally the same thing happened with the PS3, arguably that was much worse and it didn’t cook Sony at all.
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SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Oh Sony is actually cooked now.
I give it a month before unlocked PS5s are everywhere, and maybe six months to an year before a full on PS5 emulator.
Kushan@lemmy.world 5 days ago
pory@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Piracy never ever actually hurts big companies. Game consoles make their entire business on selling “just plug it in and click the prompts and play the game, ezpz” as a lifestyle. It doesn’t matter how fully hacked a console is or how easy it is to hack them, the percentage of users that’ll mod and pirate is always miniscule.
Look at sales numbers for Pokemon X and Y, which released when the 3DS was ironclad. Compare them to Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, which released when 3DS piracy required a $100 flashcart and an ancient system firmware with no downgrade route. Compare those to Pokémon Sun and Moon, which released when five minutes with an SD card and a magnet would let you pirate the game directly from Nintendo’s own fucking server. Notice a pattern? No you don’t, they all sold like hotcakes.
hystericallymad@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
My dude, have you seen outside recently?
Kushan@lemmy.world 4 days ago
My dude, have you tried not being a cunt for no reason lately?
pory@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Sony isn’t even cooked, man. Piracy is a non issue to the bottom line. The Switch had this plus fully functional pirate installers in like, month 2 and Nintendo still sold a morbillion copies of TOTK despite all the hackable consoles on the market (and the maturity of emulators)
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 5 days ago
The GBA had a working emulator before it even came out.