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Tears Of The Kingdom Was Pirated 1 Million Times, Nintendo Claims In Lawsuit (kotaku.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

And I imagine a fair number of those who pirated also bought the game legally, either to have a digital backup or to run on a PC emulator.

So your main groups pirating a given game are:

  1. people who never would've been customers
  2. actual customers who own a copy and want it on PC as well
  3. pirated first, and ended up buying the same later
  4. actual lost sales

I imagine #4 is such a small percent of the total number of downloads that they probably help more than they hurt (e.g. word of mouth advertising).