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jammy2211 on 06 January 2009
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Oyvoyvoyv said:
Munkeh111 said:
Killergran said:
Munkeh111 said:
No R* will be happy with the +15m sales that GTA IV will end up with

What do you mean by this? Are you being sarcastic?

Why would anyone be happy with what they got, when they can aim for more?

 

They made a game which was the second  best reviewed game of all time and sold incredibly well, so why would they want to change everything?

 

@ peachbuggy, you are comparing a game with Mario in the title, directed towards Wii owners with a game that does not fit the system's demographic, GTA is much better suited on the PS360, which have the more violent games, Wii may have MadWorld, but PS360 have 10 more. It will be interesting how well it sells on DS though

I don't know how little GTA fits with the Wiis base. I mean, the Wii one is the closest one to the Ps2 one.

 Also, what is he comparing?

A game that sold 7M & 4M last gen

The best selling franchise last gen

Also, the Wii wouldn't need to be even close to as largely scaled, and could easily have less than 1/10th of the budget (GTA IV = 100M, SMG was 15M, they're not going to make it costier than SMG)

 

I'd still say that GTA should stay at Ps3/X360 though, as its sales will probably be at least 2x the size over a Wii version.

But heck, why don't they port GTA:SA/VC on 1 disc over to Wii? That would cash in a fair amount...

Oh what the hell, Take2 is probably earning heaps on the Wii already.

 

 

 Surely the $100M for GTA is including marketing, whereas the SMG figure is just developement costs?

 No way did GTA cost $100M to develope, or did SMG's marketing cost less then $15M lol. Anyone got any sources on these figures as I've seen them a few times and not sure where they came from.

 Scratch that, I've seen in an interview that the president guy said GTA had a 'production budget' of $100M. Surely that includes marketing... right? :/ Also just found that GTA IV brought in revenue of $710, I don't even know how that is possible.