You can pirate wii games?
I got this game for £10 new for crying out loud, people should just be less cheap!

Of course you can pirate Wii games. All you need is an SD card and an ExHD. It's the easiest console to softmod.

I definitely must have missed something here. When did HOTD sell nearly 500K? I recall that Sega said it didn't sell well. If that 890K number is real, then that's your reason right there why so many good games aren't selling.

I bought the collectors edition of House of the Dead : Overkill - and I have to say it's my most satisfying purchase this year.

Although; as you all know there are frame rate issues. I had a theory - and I proved it was correct. I ripped the game to my external USB drive with my soft-modded Wii, then run the game from the USB HDD.

Guess what? Frame rate issues - RESOLVED. Therefore; the disc & case is now stored away safely and I will only play the copy off of the HDD now - as it makes my original rating 9/10 go up to 10/10.

But yeah; support SEGA - this is the best release they've done in a long time, let's hope project needlemouse lives up to expectations :)

@ Kyle

So what's your theory on why it would it run faster from the USB HDD? Is it because the data is streaming from the disk while you are playing?

Digital distribution.
Frame rate issues solved.

That still doesn't make sense, Michael.

Anyway, I thought SEGA said the game made a profit? 480k's damn good for a rail shooter.

I guarantee that the majority of those who downloaded Overkill illegally would never have bought it anyway, even if it wasn't available on torrent sites. Generally, people that pirate games do so because they're cheap-ass gamers with no respect. In summary, those 890,000 downloads would never have equated to 890,000 real-world sales. Probably not even half that.

I'm not saying piracy isn't a problem; it definitely is, but usually it only affects the little guys, because big publishers like Sega already know it's going to happen, so they plan for it, accept it and move on. That's all they can do at this point.

@ Lloyd

I so disagree. One reason I think the game didn't sell well initially is because of the price - $50. That's a lot of money for a gun shooter. It wasn't until the game was marked down to around $30 that it really began to sell. The last HOTD game was priced around $20 and sold very well.

So while there may be cheap gamers who downloaded the game illegally, perhaps many of them would have bought the game if it wasn't so expensive. Everyone has a threshold point for purchasing, and it isn't always an all or nothing game.

@Master Lee

I totally agree. Take valkyria chronicles for instance, that game didn't start to sell until it had a price drop. that's when it started to move units. A good majority of people would rather wait to buy a game used so the price would be cheaper or wait until it comes down in price (which ever comes first). This is where pre-order bonuses come in handy.