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Not really... in the PSX there used to be TONNES of copied CDs and we all know how that went...

The failure of the Dreamcast was the pitifully small library, not piracy.

the dreamcast had 700+ games, more than gamecube and xbox combined

390 of which were only released in Japan.

The xbox actually had ~900 games and the GameCube had ~700.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dreamcast_games

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_GameCube_games

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_games

Wikipedia lists 967 games for the xbox alone. The Gamecube appears to have come in somewhere around 500 or so. But it's probably worth noting that no one ever claimed either of those consoles had massive libraries, either.

It is amazing how that myth persists. Piracy was much more common for the playstation, and I seem to recall it did ok.

I even heard that Sony was trying to make their games pirat-able in order to promote them faster and kill the competition, LOL. Don't know if was true, but worked fine.