The most copied games in 2009

[blackdragonbaham]

The internet site --that i shouldn't have mentioned-- announced a list of the most pirated games of the year 2009. There you can see the Top 5 winners on wii, xbox 360 and pc. it's just questionable whether it is a honor for the winners to get into this positions

here the list; enjoy:

Xbox 360
1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (970.000 Downloads)
2. Street Fighter IV (840.000 Downloads)
3. Prototype (810.000 Downloads)
4. Colin McRae DiRT 2 (790.000 Downloads)
5. UFC 2009 Undisputed (720.000 Downloads)

Wii
1. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (1.150.000 Downloads)
2. Punch-Out!! (950.000 Downloads)
3. Wii Sports Resort (920.000 Downloads)
4. The House of the Dead: Overkill (860.000 Downloads)
5. Mario Power Tennis (830.000 Downloads)

PC
1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (4.100.000 Downloads)
2. The Sims 3 (3.200.000 Downloads)
3. Prototype (2.350.000 Downloads)
4. Need for Speed SHIFT (2.100.000 Downloads)
5. Street Fighter IV (1.850.000 Downloads)

 

[Guild McCommunist]

No wonder HotD: Overkill sold so badly.

We already knew about NSMB Wii and Modern Warfare 2, though.

 

[Thoob]

Prototype? I didn't think it was that popular.

 

[Elritha]

I do wonder how they can even determine these figures, or where they are pulling them from. There's no way they can tell what each individual user has been downloading worldwide.

 

[ZeWarrior]

Its obviously an estimate.. they probably took a small sample and escalated it with some formula.
PC has too many pirates :S

 

[tommyt]

I do wonder how they can even determine these figures, or where they are pulling them from. There's no way they can tell what each individual user has been downloading worldwide.

I also wonder.
Anyway tough luck to Activision they lost millions.

 

[blackdragonbaham]

I do wonder how they can even determine these figures, or where they are pulling them from. There's no way they can tell what each individual user has been downloading worldwide.

--same nono site--The data for these lists is collected by --another site?! I hope i learn from this-- from several sources, including reports from all public BitTorrent trackers. All the data is carefully checked and possible inaccuracies are systematically corrected.

 

[Zenith94]

Of course everyone download New Super Mario Bros Wii. It was only 350MB for crying out loud.

 

[Hatsu]

lol @ people that pirated Wii Sports Resort. Had to buy the WiiM+

 

[updowners]

I personally think that MW2 on PC deserved to be pirated. It was a total insult to us.

 

[VashTS]

The companies didn't necessarily lose money, I never buy any games, and I wouldn't even if pirating wasn't an option. So technically, if I didn't intend to buy but pirate, no loss. I gain slightly but I don't really play that many games anyway. Usually pirated games have issues as well, like playing online, I would like to play MW2 online for PC, but it seems to complicated to crack.

 

[Bladexdsl]

It was a total insult to us.

and yet is still got GOTY on GT

 

[Prophet]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (970,000 970,001 Downloads)

I had been meaning to D/L this...

 

[pieman202]

don't forget to quote your scource *cough*Kotaku*cough*

 

[Fluto]

wow new super mario bros didn't come out a long time ago but still it made to the top
also i got sims 3 lol

y would people pirate wii sports resort you need motion plus to play it

 

[Cyan]

wow new super mario bros didn't come out a long time ago but still it made to the top
also i got sims 3 lol

y would people pirate wii sports resort you need motion plus to play it

No, you are wrong :

You need games compatibles with the motion+ to use motion+ you bought (Wii sport Resort is NOT the only compatible game)
I pirated it, because I already owned a motion+, not the contrary.


your point of view : why pirate Red Steel 2 ? you will need a Wii motion+, that's why you need to buy the game bundle with the motion+ ! you can't pirate it ! you need more Motion+ hardware than wiimote you own ! .. oh, wait

 

[ZeWarrior]

your point of view : why pirate Red Steel 2 ? you will need a Wii motion+, that's why you need to buy the game bundle with the motion+ ! you can't pirate it ! you need more Motion+ hardware than wiimote you own ! .. oh, wait

That didn't make any sense at all.

 

[Maikel Steneker]

your point of view : why pirate Red Steel 2 ? you will need a Wii motion+, that's why you need to buy the game bundle with the motion+ ! you can't pirate it ! you need more Motion+ hardware than wiimote you own ! .. oh, wait

That didn't make any sense at all.

It was a bit confusing, but he's right. The Wii MotionPlus is more interesting than Wii Sports Resort is. I can see why people would want to get it to play Wii Sports Resort and Red Steel 2. There's no reason to pay at least twice as much for a game you don't want.

 

[Cyan]

Sorry if I was confusing

I just wanted to say that it's common sense to pirate Wii sport resort, because you can buy Motion+ only.
That's not like Wii fit where you needed to buy game+board, as board wasn't available alone. Pirating Wiifit would have been more strange.

And seeing we can buy Motion+ alone, it can be used to play many other games, not only Resort.
People could have bought Motion+ alone to play Tennis games, and then decided to pirate Resort. No need to buy again a Wii sport Resort bundled with Motion+ to get the game only.

 

[razorback78]

And seeing we can buy Motion+ alone, it can be used to play many other games, not only Resort.

what many games? i only know 2: tiger woods and wii sports resort. can you name more games using this aside from the red steel 2 that you had stated.