Originally Posted by Qwan
there arent many MMO's connected to the console world, well none that I have heard of.
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I played one of the Everquests (forget which) on a Playstation 2 back in 2004 IIRC.
Originally Posted by NewSith
And the reason consoles are more profittable, is their being less vulnerable to piracy.
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It's cheaper to develop games for consoles because there is only 1 standardized hardware configuration you need to optimize for and bug test.
I'm not sure if piracy has much of an effect on profitability. Some people buy games after pirating them, when they would not have bought it if they never had the opportunity to try it first. Others just don't have the cash and would not buy it anyway. I don't know what percentage of pirates have the money but choose to not pay for the games they enjoy. It's probably a smaller number than the industry lobbyists would have us believe.