International Cricket 2010 Receives Good Response in India‎

[Params7]

If you want good sales in India, make it a PC version, make it easy to run on low-end hardware and include online play that can only be played in original copies or else people will just pirate for offline play. GTA4 PC version kind of followed this idea and managed 50,000+ copies (which is the biggest sales figure for any major PC/console game in India) but the game was still pirated a lot, sucked overall, had a stupid online mode and required only top end hardware to even run it at low.

Xbox 360 India chairman says that the X360 installment base in India is about 100,000-300,000. X360 is cheaper than PS3 in India and promoted by Yuvi and Akshay. Combined console pop in India could be just about under 400,000. Less than half a million...if a big name console game today sells under half a million its considered a flop.

India's got poverty problems to solve before high end console gaming can expect returns there. Consoles need to be cheaper there and need proper marketing. Nokia did that with cell phones and now Delhi has more mobile users than landline users.

 

[cotterill101]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is belived to have been pirated 500k times in India...

 

[SciD]

X-box sell more because its easy to find pirated DVD for it after modding it for mere Rs. 500. :doh

 

[Jocar83]

Pretty sad. Why is this country so unlawful? Pretty shameful. Is it that they are so poor, or they just have such disregard for laws?

Jocar83 added 2 Minutes and 51 Seconds later...

I wonder how long before they all play cracked versions of the Ps3 now that PS3 has been cracked. Although at the moment, you have to pay money for the crack, so probably not many....

 

[alioz]

Pretty sad. Why is this country so unlawful? Pretty shameful. Is it that they are so poor, or they just have such disregard for laws?

Jocar83 added 2 Minutes and 51 Seconds later...

I wonder how long before they all play cracked versions of the Ps3 now that PS3 has been cracked. Although at the moment, you have to pay money for the crack, so probably not many....

Well its a mixture of things. Copyright laws are not that tough in India. And average income is pretty low aswell. Now if you have a choice to buy a game for $80.00 or buy a copy game next to it for $5.00 (and knowing no one will punish/fine you for buying this game) than i think most of people will spend $5.00. Copyright needs to implemented properly for people to stop buying pirated copies.