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And you could say that GTA has a bit of brand-awareness to support it :)
Before the AppStore I would have entirely agreed. Now that we've witnessed people pirating $1 apps, I no longer quite share that sentiment....
Should pay a visit some day, no doubt :) But let me still argue that your BPI (buying power index) is about double that of Finland. The cost of...
Assuming you live in an apartment with more than one room, the rent you quote is about 1/3 of the lowest ones over here in Helsinki (a student...
That's exactly my belief: piracy hurts independent games more than branded titles. Whenever a small developer is building awareness of their...
If you look at the top grossing list for the holidays in the US, you'll notice the list was totally dominated by publishers and their brands. I...
The PC version will look very similar to the iPhone version, but with the added benefit of running in a higher resolution and being able to run...
I presented a hypothetical case of how piracy can in some circumstances have a dire effect on the launch of a game. Take it as you will. There...
It would be better not to mix up retail space with downloadable games market, but yes, since you brought those devices up, XBLA and PSN are doing...
Proportional piracy has nothing to do with the size of the market, the only thing that increases the proportion of jailbroken devices in the...
No, this was for Zen Bound, which was launched in February 2009. As said, the launch piracy rate of Stair Dismount (launched in November) was much...
I'm not disputing that the competition has increased or that the market has saturated. I'm not hiding behind piracy and acknowledge that our two...
I believe iTunes allows you to have five authorized devices. This works at least for music, I'm unsure if apps have the same mechanism in place....
Devices that have synced a game from a legal iTunes library are not counted as pirated copies. Only cracked games (where the game has been...
The numbers quoted by ngmoco and Fishlabs are public on web articles. We collect our own numbers from the products we've launched, and discuss...
I apologize if you've misinterpreted my reply. I first congratulated you because your company has made a living with the situation you quote....
You started with: And now it's: I usually refer to the above as generalization, also known as a sweeping statement :)
It's great if your company has found a sustainable living with a revenue stream enabled by piracy. I'd like to point out though, that if it is you...
Picking cherries again? Ngmoco quotes launch week piracy of 50-90%, Fishlabs quotes launch week piracy of 95%, one developer on TA thread says he...
PSP hasn't really seen much software developed for it, has it? :) Symbian on the other hand isn't a market worth developing games for, too...
