whabang wrote:
IIRC, nobody has managed to break the GC's encryption yet...
Not true. Heck, I saw a video of somebody playing a burned disk on a Game Cube only weeks after it was released.
As for the relationship between piracy and prices, the relationship is likely overblown. Pirates pirate and non-pirates don't. I doubt lower prices would get them to stop, and the historically high prices reflect what paying customers are willing to dole out.
Speaking for myself, the primary reason I modded my PS2 was the inability to play non-US games on it, like the Winning Eleven football series. When they localize it for Europe or elsewhere, it sucks. The PAL versions are slow and the US versions are neutered.
