I'll add to the last paragraph on the last post.
Remember when PS3 launched, virtually all of the PS3 launch games were dumped as ISOs on basically the same day as the launch and for a couple of months you could download these ISOs off of torrent sites.
Basically someone magically got their hands on a back then $1000 dollar BR-Rom drive, somehow magically had ripping software and was sharing it along with all of the PS2 games.
The people that say that piracy does not affect sales are the blind, tell me where can we find sales numbers of sold mod chips, yet these mod chip makers (last gen) kept having the funding to make revisions and more revisions of these mod chips, I don't think they were pirating silicone chip fabs here.
almost all of the traditional game consoles have tried to prevent piracy in some way or another, iirc the PS2 took a WHILE before it was successfully hacked and Sony responded with a revision, eventually there were mod chips that worked up to a certain revision of the console, Nintendo used the mini-dvd like drive because you could just not go out and buy the discs and the burners and it worked for a while so what did they do other than trying mods, emulation, GC was hacked by emulation (like the n64 was so publicly done and basically advertised on magazines) but there was a price because it demanded an expensive for its time setup, then they turned over to Wii emulation, PS2 emulation was not easy, it still is not easy yet there are a bunch of people too lazy to buy a $99 dollar PS2 and sub $40 dollar or far less games and instead they invest in the last two years high end Intel CPUs and Nv/Ati gpus AND they overclock the things just to get games running it really is malicious and shows that these people really don't care about the industry or videogame as an artform and entertainment.
BTW currently emulation is being advertised in articles by so called journalist gaming media sites.
Microsoft is trying to do updates, they learned from when the first XBox was hacked and people were selling xbox1s customized with 1.4Ghz Celerons with multiplier switches (to change clock speeds) additional ram and custom harddrive hacked software but its not enough so they brick a console if and when they find it (360) its surprising noone tries to do a class action suit or maybe they don't have excuses.
Linux iirc was ran on PSx, PS2, PS3, DC and Xbox 1 either legally allowed or hacked but it was never a usefull selling feature for these game consoles when people were supposed to be buying them for games so if its missing like Rob the robot no one has any excuse to cry a river about it.
