Crysis 2 managed to beat out FPS heavyweights Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 in one way: piracy. It seems Crysis 2 was the most pirated game of the 2011 with over 3.9 million copies downloaded illegally.
TorrentFreak, who compiled the list of most pirated games, notes that Crysis 2 was leaked to torrents over a month before its March release. However, this only accounted for a small fraction of the total. Piracy spiked after the game's actual release.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 managed to top the list for Wii games, in spite of being released in May 2010. Probably not the sort of longevity Nintendo hopes for. Galaxy 2 is the only game on the list that wasn't released in 2011.
The full list of "winners" is below.
PC Game Downloads
1. Crysis 2 (3,920,000)
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (3,650,000)
3. Battlefield 3 (3,510,000)
4. FIFA 12 (3,390,000)
5. Portal 2 (3,240,000)
Wii Game Downloads
1. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (1,280,000)
2. Mario Sports Mix (1,090,000)
3. Xenoblade Chronicles (950,000)
4. Lego Pirates of the Caribbean (870,000)
5. FIFA 12 (860,000)
Xbox 360 Game
1. Gears of War 3 (890,000)
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (830,000)
3. Battlefield 3 (760,000)
4. Forza Motorsport 4 (720,000)
5. Kinect Sports: Season Two (690,000)
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