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Software cost is a function of supply and demand. You aren't entitled to pay whatever price you want for games, and if you are in the business of piracy, it's not greedy for the company whose business you're stealing to respond with litigation. If the guy down the street wants your television, is he entitled to steal it because you won't sell it to him for far less that it is worth?

The old adage that if no piracy occurred then the prices should come down is one lost on the Gaming manufacturers unfortunately. Look at the PS3 ... it has yet to be cracked [ to the point where mere mortals can use it anyway] yet the prices for PS3 software remain incredibly high. And back in the day when the NES/SNES/N64 were around Nintendo had absolute control over the manufacture of carts for games and with that control they had no necessity to lower the costs to publishers. When you have these types of situation and the public feel they are being ripped off, especially over a long period of a consoles life, you open the door to the cracker/hacker community and they end up with a clientele of people prepared to obtain software at a more economic level. This isn't to say I support this issue one way or the other ...each to their own ... but the manufacturers have to accept some culpability in the matter. I can guarantee that if you could get Mario Galaxy or Mario Kart Wii for $15 some 6 months after initial release you'd find 'most' people happy to wait and shell out for original software. But titles over a year old are still having an asking price of $100+ which is just ridiculous and fuels the ongoing war between manufacturers and the pirates. In the case of Sony and the PS3 there simply isn't an excuse for their pricing structure given the lack of piracy on the system. It essentially comes down to greed on their part.