| dougsdad0629 said: No matter how good games such as GTA Chinatown Wars on the DS or Madworld, etc. are on the Wii, it often seems like the sales numbers end up being extremely low considering the size of the userbase. This is an important lesson that IMO developers need to be aware of. Simply looking at the number of consoles sold is not good enough justification to make certain games. You have to know your audience. No matter how good GTA on the DS is, it's the wrong audience. This becomes a self perpetuating problem. A developer puts out a "hardcore" game, it sells poorly and it reduces the likelihood of them putting out more "hardcore" games. Therefore, the system has a hard time attracting "hardcore" gamers which is why the game sold poorly in the first place. Such a highly reviewed game from a MAJOR franchise, should not be down to almost half price already. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9185669&st=chinatown&type=product&id=1218049842431 |
We could go under the idea that sales faltered from it being on the DS or
We could go under the idea that most of the GTA fans don't view it as a true GTA game because it's no third person. I have already heard from people on the site that play GTA games say would rather buy a thrid person GTA not a 2d GTA game. So if the GTA fans aren't considereing this as part of the major franshise because of it's view why do they feel inclined to buy it?
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.
