320k for the period of time he worked for the group amounts to a meager 44k a year, it's a low salary.

Also piracy doesn't work like that, it's a speculation on damage but no real damage is done. It's not like people stopped buying games and consoles because they could emulate. Quite the contrary, emulation works almost as advertising. Those that stay on emulation wouldn't purchase the console and games anyway, and those that would is always exaggerated in these kinds of plea.

In https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/feb/01/the-man-who-ow... Bowser says that fighting the charges would cost a lot of time and money and pleading guilty is simpler to deal with, so I would take information from the plea deal with a pinch of salt.