Did piracy affect 3DS game sales? Pokemon X/Y vs S/M sales

[kuwanger]

No. Next question.

 

[Kioku]

Keep in mind that there were quite a few people that did not like the direction they took with S/M.

 

[AkikoKumagara]

I doubt it affected much. Honestly, most people who wanted to play Pokémon on the 3DS had already bought one for X/Y long before, and bought Sun or Moon when it came out. I've downloaded games here and there, sure, but I bought Y, Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire, Sun, and Moon, as they released. I didn't buy Ultra Moon/Ultra Sun because of the huge similarity to their predecessors, and for no reason other than that would I have not bought them, too.

I'm sure a lot of people pirated Sun/Moon, but a lot of people most definitely pirated X/Y as well, even though piracy was beyond a pretty large paywall at that time with Gateway.

 

[brickmii82]

No. Next question.

Yes. This question. The console and games were complete and utter failures due to the fact that they did not sell 14.5 billion units. This was all due to piracy and Donald Trump.

 

[Ryccardo]

One is a pair of games (albeit cheesier than many of their distant predecessors), the other is a pair of "interactive" movies

Maybe the real interpretation is about the evolution of the average laziness/ease of satisfaction of consumers, or maybe their blind faith in brands?