On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Jose Angel Morente wrote:
> Everybody copies Playstation games nowadays but Japanese companies
> sell its products. Martos cracked up to, 300, 400 games? And it distributed
> those games to a small number of MSX users.
Small number of MSX users? Come on, I live in Spain and know Martos since
some years ago, and you know as well as me that he made big bucks selling
pirated copies to lots of people. Also, you were the one who said that
almost every copy we've been playing was made by him. And you call this 'a
small number of MSX users'?
> But there is THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of PSX games copied every day, and
> Japanese companies still sell games in Europe and America.
We're not talking about PSX, but MSX. Anyway, these are different
markets. The PSX will be discontinued not long after PSX2 has a greater
userbase.
> I think that Japanese MSX companies did not sell games in Europe because
> there was a small MSX community (compared to the million of MSX users
> in Japan).
Then you're wrong. There WAS a big base of MSX users here. Big enough to
allow Martos to work as a pirate and earn enough money with this
activity. How many friends you have that have been MSX users
previously? Most of my coworkers/friends owned an MSX some years
ago. That's not what I call 'a small MSX community'.
> Furthermore, Martos started cracking games because they were not sold
> in Europe, but not vice-versa.
They were sold in Europe through distributors like SERMA or LASP in Spain,
Gouda in Holland, etc... But they had to stop imports of these games
because the small number of copies they could sell.
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