Many people care about sales figures. Sure, that makes sense. Sales figures determine popularity and profit.
But do game companies consider how many times their games are acquired illegally? You bet they do. TorrentFreak hit up all the major public BitTorrent trackers and took note of how many times a particular game has been downloaded. If these figures are correct, I’m astounded in many different ways.
What I want to know is how someone could download and play Wii Sports Resort, when the purchase of a Wii Motion Plus peripheral is required to play. Anyone who torrents must also be a Macgyver prodigy, constructing their own Motion Plus out of paperclips and gum.
I’m assuming that the point of downloading is to achieve games for free, because of a lack of money. Therefor, no one would go out and buy a Motion Plus. Pirates don’t plunder a village, then pay for the rum.
via(Kotaku)
Tags: 2009, motion plus, pirated, torrents, wii sports resort
