$42 Billion Lost to Pirated PSP and DSGames

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According to the study by the Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association, nearly $42 billion worth of Sony PSP(Portable Play Station) and Nintendo DS games were illegally downloaded from internet. This does not include peer-to-peer sharing methods and pirated CDs in Asia especially China, India , Pakistan, Bangladesh which could put the numbers at a significantly higher value. America is number one with the most servers hosting piracy sites, with China at number 2.

This figure is quite close to the approximate loss in software industry in 2009. Italy tops the list of countries with Video Games Piracy Losses followed by China, Spain , South Korea, Russia, Mexico, Taiwan, Brazil, Sweden, India (losses more than 100 Million) and so on. 

TorrentFreak reveals that in 2009,the PC version of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 was downloaded 4.1 million times from torrent sites. The Xbox 360 version of the game was downloaded more than 970,000 times.

The figures are related to portable games and Console based games are yet to be comprehensively analyzed

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