Re-evaluating Chinatown Wars' "failure"

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TWRoO said:

Star Scream said:
I think the problem here is that some half of the DS users (according to Nintendo) are female. That's why stuff like Leyton and Cooking Mama charted better than Chinatown Wars. I think Rockstar themselves said they hoped Chinatown Wars would expand DS audience...


And maybe it will, even though the opening was less than impressive. There's a DSi launch in a few days, and maybe people will pick up CTW with it...

Half in Japan.

In the USA it is only 27%.... though for last years buyers it was 48% (which means that 27% is increasing)

 

As of when is the 27%?

If both are as of end of the year...

That means

Let's say there was a 50-50 split last year.

That's 6M - 6M (a bit less on both sides).

The total DS sales are 31.6M. So, the total is 8.5M women, 23.1M men.

Before the year, the result had then been

2.5M women, 17M men.

 

Obviously, that's not the case. So the 27% data has to be 3/4 of a year, or more, old.

 

If you say it is as of the end of July 2008, that results in.

Men - 18.25M

Women - 6.75M

 

If the sales have been split 55-45 since then, that leaves us with

Men - 22.5M

Women - 10.75M

 

And I'm guessing the data is older.

It's probably at around 33% now I'd assume.