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

[mike_intellivision]

KylieDog said:

famousringo said:
Speaking of comparing American data, here's the comparison between handheld GTAs I posted before using Americas sales only:

http://www.vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?reg1=America&game1=Grand+Theft+Auto%3A+Chinatown+Wars+-+DS&reg2=America&game2=Grand+Theft+Auto%3A+Vice+City+Stories+-+PSP&reg3=America&game3=Grand+Theft+Auto%3A+Liberty+City+Stories+-+PSP&weeks=100

Chinatown is still splitting the difference between VC Stories and LC Stories. If this trend holds, I don't think Take 2 will have anything to complain about.

 

 

All these comparisons are flawed.

 

For one thing the PSP games got PS2 versions, stealing sales.

 

Plus back when they were released the PSP userbase was what?  20m?  25m?   DS userbase is 100 million.  Now while userbase isn't directly propertional to sales...it does matter.  PSP userbase is also vastly more rampant with piracy than DS.

Well, you have a slight point with Liberty City stories -- but I am not sure how a game that sold 5.66M had sales taken from it.

The point is flawed on Vice City since the PS2 version came out four years BEFORE the PSP game.

 

The point about user base makes the sales of those games more remarkabke. The PSP had just over 5M in Fall 2005 and just under 19M by the end of 2006.  Of course, that means either eveyrone who owned a PSP bought those games or they have had some legs.

 

Mike from Morgantown