most pirated games 2009
- Thread starter lunarwolf
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The console sales outstrip the PC sales for call of duty 6 by a massive margin.
That doesn't surprise me.
I didn't think it would
Adding to my previous post; to put things in perspective for sales, here's the top 10 computer games sales from January to November 2009 in the US:
1. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360, Activision) - 4.2m
2. Wii Fit (Wii, Nintendo) - 3.5m
3. Wii Sports Resort (Wii, Nintendo) - 2.4m
4. Wii Mario Kart (Wii, Nintendo) - 2.2m
5. Wii Play (Wii, Nintendo) - 2.1m
6. Halo 3: ODST (Xbox 360, Microsoft) - 2m
7. Pokemon Platinum Version (DS, Nintendo) 1.9m
8. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3, Activision) - 1.9m
9. Madden NFL 10 (Xbox 360, Electronic Arts) - 1.5m
10. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii, Nintendo) - 1.4m
No PC game even made it into the top 10.
I didn't think it would
Adding to my previous post; to put things in perspective for sales, here's the top 10 computer games sales from January to November 2009 in the US:
1. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360, Activision) - 4.2m
2. Wii Fit (Wii, Nintendo) - 3.5m
3. Wii Sports Resort (Wii, Nintendo) - 2.4m
4. Wii Mario Kart (Wii, Nintendo) - 2.2m
5. Wii Play (Wii, Nintendo) - 2.1m
6. Halo 3: ODST (Xbox 360, Microsoft) - 2m
7. Pokemon Platinum Version (DS, Nintendo) 1.9m
8. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3, Activision) - 1.9m
9. Madden NFL 10 (Xbox 360, Electronic Arts) - 1.5m
10. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii, Nintendo) - 1.4m
No PC game even made it into the top 10.
that;s strange as the sims 3 sold has sold 5.9 million copies and it was only released in June 09....
selling over 1.4 million in the first week alone
Your list fails.
Why not just order from Play.com? More expensive than the UK price but Mass Effect 2 is still only 35 Euros.
I agree with the following points:
1. The DL figures do not equate to lost downloads
2. Piracy does drive up recomended retail price
3. A reduction in Piracy will not reduce the recomended retail
4. Often gamers DL games before they buy them
Now forgive me if i'm wrong but apart from hacked servers (which i belive are full of cheaters), you need a legit copy of any decent game to play on. I know atleast with CS < 1.6 you needed a legit CD Key to authticate with the auth servers to play. I assume that as this game did not have a single player version that sales were not to bad? Is not the anwser to make better multiplayer games and up the security regarding online CD Key authentication?
My 2P anyways.
1. The DL figures do not equate to lost downloads
2. Piracy does drive up recomended retail price
3. A reduction in Piracy will not reduce the recomended retail
4. Often gamers DL games before they buy them
Now forgive me if i'm wrong but apart from hacked servers (which i belive are full of cheaters), you need a legit copy of any decent game to play on. I know atleast with CS < 1.6 you needed a legit CD Key to authticate with the auth servers to play. I assume that as this game did not have a single player version that sales were not to bad? Is not the anwser to make better multiplayer games and up the security regarding online CD Key authentication?
My 2P anyways.
Looking at MW2, apparently not. Singleplayer is good but much shorter than before and from what the Yahtzee review said, used the 'dieing from the nuke' bit again thinking it would still have the same effect. Half arsed.
Then theres the multiplayer, copy/paste with some extra gimmicks.
Yet the name 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2' was apparently enough. I could guarantee you they could release a MW3 as a multiplayer only game, copy/pasted from MW2 with tiny changes and the number of sales would still dwarf indie titles that actually deserve them. It seems IW figured 1 thing out, your average consumer is a ****ing idiot.
Go ahead. You won't be able to.
Note: when someone has gained their copyright-infringing material via bittorent, they are uploading the material and distributing to others at the same time.
The only reason people are prosecuted and fined large amounts, is because of a very shady method of working out how many people the person has uploaded to, and therefore the lost sales the company has suffered. It's pure fiction of course, for reasons mentioned earlier in this thread.
Most definitely! They seem to take joy in "Punishing" those "stupid" enough to grab such material via torrents.
Torrents are great, but they're best used on non-illegal, or "grey" area stuff.
Such as Anime series that aren't licensed in your country, or TV shows.
They can call TV rips piracy all they want, there is absolutely nothing they can do about it though, as for Anime, nothing much is said on that as no one really knows what to do about it.
If i thought it was important enough i would. Especially as i am pretty sure that someone, somewhere has been done for downloading, be it music, games, movies, whatever. At least once.
However its really not worth me taking the time to trawl the web to find the one case of it. Its simply not worth it just to prove a point to a nobody on the internet, so i will humbly decline and use my time elsewhere
I think you missed my point - Putting more effort into the multiplayer side of things may increase rev and limit piracy - esp if you limit the game to dedicated servers.
I didn't think it would
Adding to my previous post; to put things in perspective for sales, here's the top 10 computer games sales from January to November 2009 in the US:
1. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360, Activision) - 4.2m
2. Wii Fit (Wii, Nintendo) - 3.5m
3. Wii Sports Resort (Wii, Nintendo) - 2.4m
4. Wii Mario Kart (Wii, Nintendo) - 2.2m
5. Wii Play (Wii, Nintendo) - 2.1m
6. Halo 3: ODST (Xbox 360, Microsoft) - 2m
7. Pokemon Platinum Version (DS, Nintendo) 1.9m
8. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3, Activision) - 1.9m
9. Madden NFL 10 (Xbox 360, Electronic Arts) - 1.5m
10. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii, Nintendo) - 1.4m
No PC game even made it into the top 10.
retail sales
these lists are useless for pc games since they never include digital sales