EEDAR: GTA Chinatown Wars performance proves mature DS games "risky"

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outlawauron said:

Kenology said:

^ @ outlaw:

Sure GTA sells amazing on the PSP but it's one of the few games that actually posts those types of numbers whereas the DS has plenty more.

Don't start cherry picking... If I wanted to make a case that PSP software doesn't sell and you wanted to make a case for the opposite, all you'd pnly have is GTA, Monster Hunter, and perhaps a few other games to make your case.  I'd have far more ammo than you would, so please don't go there!

So yeah, the DS doesn't dominate the PSP when it comes to GTA sales, but in general, it most certainly does.

Even still, Chinatown Wars is tracking much higher than the second PSP game (Liberty City Stories) thus far - so we'll see.

Liberty City Stories was the first PSP GTA and launched with only 2.4 million PSPs. (October 29th, 2005)

Chinatown Wars launched on 33 million DSs.

It has everything going for it. I just think its humorous that it won't outsell the PSP GTAs that launched years ago.

If Chinatown Wars slgihtly outsells Liberty City Stories, you can bring up the same point and say it fails as well because of the big difference of install base. Either way Chinatown Wars is screwed.