This explain partly why Consoles producers (Sega and Nintendo mostly) were the winners of this era.
Crackers were mostly quite active in france because CPC sold very well mostly only there (best selling 8 bit computer in France).
It is to mention that C64 and ZX spectrum were far more sold around the world.
Cracking As said, cracking was of course a nice way to get games for a few amount of money so it popularised those games.
But it also got sales far inferior to what it would have been possible.
As a result, CPC got a lot of Speccy ports because it was even more a lesser market :
--very talented crackers.
So CPC games were not always as good as they could be, because the market was not so lucrative..
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