Erik Aston on 26 April 2009
The difference between a "sale" and a "price cut" is... semantics. We know from numbers so far that the game isn't so popular that they can draw tons of foot traffic by slashing the price.
Not that the game is a bomb. I still think it will sell a few million. But even 5-million is sort of a yawn-inducing number for the GTA franchise, which is probably why they moved the series to DS. Who knows why they decided to make an old-school top-down game.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
