I totally forgot it uses cartridges also.

>Piracy thankfully didn't pick up on PS3, but the most pirated
>game on 360 last year was GoW3 with 890,000 illegal downloads
>last year. That's $53 million dollars that went missing. The
>Wii was even worse with 1.2 million Mario Galaxy downloads.
>You can argue that some of the people that pirated wouldn't
>have purchased the game if they couldn't get it for free, but
>at least some of them would.

But piracy and gaming has ALWAYS existed; why is it suddenly a huge issue now? Something else has changed and it's not more sophisticated pirates since they have been a constant for decades; it's a pure ploy to get more money out of the consumer in nickle & dime fashion because they are afraid to up the MSRP for a new release.


>>console out of online gaming valhalla. Piracy will ALWAYS
>>exist, but they did a good job this gen with the consoles
>>keeping it to a minimum.
>>
>>Used games have always been around, its just a way to make
>the
>>consumer suffer because they are cowards. As opposed to
>going
>>after the real person they have beef with, Gamestop, they
>>would rather use US as pawns and keep rewarding them with
>>exclusive sale incentives, lol. Those Eula were added after
>>the fact, same with the class lawsuit one sony added.
>
>After the fact or not if you agree to em, you agree to em (and
>we all do in order to play the game or use online features).
>
>If you don't like the way they do business, don't give em your
>money. Really as simple as that.

It's problematic because they are on the only game in town. (pun intended). No one knows how the future Xbox is doing it, but rumors are they are also going to implement some kind of anti-used game tech. The whole 'Well then don't give em your money' doesn't work considering there's plenty of idiots willing to pony up and keep the sham going like the recent DLC fiascos in Mass Effect 3 and SFxTek.

Im just waiting for when you spend 80 bucks on a game, you gotta pay ten dollars a month to use the online, then they close the server down a year later cause a 'new' version is out so you can spend another 80 bucks, lol. And you can only play your videogame at home since the game is going to be locked to that IP address (can't have you taking your console out and playing with your friends cause he doesn't have a copy..PIRACY!)