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.jayderyu on 17 April 2009
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ShadowSoldier said:
I'm Sorry but I'm calling bullshit! How the hell can Take-Two say that GTA CW exceeded their expectations? Its a GTA game on a userbase of over 100M and it failed to break 100k in a month in America? and you call that "Exceeding your expectations?" Bull

You should have read another posting by "The Source" about this. It explains it very well. The breakdown however is different than what your cherry picking at. In regards to demographic audience the game is off to a reasonable start. See the big failing is that your assuming that 100M users are you. They aren't you. Yes there are more users than say the PSP which is the next most relevent machine, but you need to realize that expanded audience taste is different. Think of it this way. PS3 and 360 are now the weeded out and the cream of the crop in regards to traditional gamers. This means that games like GTA4 will percentagly do really well, because GTA4 is traditional game. Where as DS and Wii have a reasonably size of traditional games + a massive new audience. The new audience takes time to get into the new games. They eventually bridge the gap, but only up to what they feel comfortable with.

 

As for why the starting sells are in not GTA4 sales, well that's easy. Did you buy it? did you ever expect the DS to get a GTA game? do you like top down looking games? Would you buy GTACW and a DS if you found the game exceedingly fun after playing a friends version?. Then ask that same question to all your friends and others who play PS3, PSP and 360 mostly.

Simply put the GTA core players, do not have a DS, are biased against the DS, are focused on the 3rd person view not the 2d/3d.

So GTA is doing well in the fact that it's breaking into new grounds. Among GTACW owners this game is starting to build a GTA DS base. Considering the games launching into new grounds gamespot feels confident that it's doing well and take 2 seem to be ok with it for now. We will however see in a month or two how it's doing.



Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.