Nintendo blames Piracy for 50% decrease in sales

The DS is known for easy piracy. I have only purchased one game for my DS, Pokemon, that way I can play tournaments and such. Otherwise I have downloaded all my games. Nintendo is blaming piracy for their 50 percent decrease in software sales in Europe. Nintendo monitored 10 oversea websites and they racked up over 238 million downloads, roughly equating to 11 billion dollars in lost sales during the month of JUNE ALONE. Obviously not a good quarter in 2009 for software sales. Reasons why this is happening:

1. DS games cost too much for their quality. Lets be honest, a bulk of DS games are not that great. WHy purchase some third party junk when I could test it out by downloading it. 30 bucks for a game that is not great, forget that.

2. People dont like carrying around a bunch of games, why have 10 games, when I can just have my r4.

3. Homebrew, wheres the homebrew at? on the r4! Gives people a chance to check out non approved games, and run emulators.

Nintendo needs to drop the price point of their DS games, they are not worth 30 bucks. Until then, piracy is expected.