Take-Two pleased with GTA: Chinatown Wars sales, sequel, Wii (and more)

[LordTheNightKnight]

Joelcool7 said:

LordTheNightKnight said:
"Most of the GTA games push the million mark only months after release."

Not all. The name does not guarantee huge sales, or GTA Advance would have been a hit.

True , true but if you look at the GTA games across the PS/PS2/X-Box and 360/PS3 they all sold well into their millions by this point. China Town Wars is only a success compared to other handheld GTA games not as a stand alone GTA title. To be honest with the DS having a user base almost as large as PS2 did the sales of GTA:CTW are horrible. On a platform as popular as the DS I'm sure RockStar expected far superior sales margins!

That's not honest.

1. Userbase fallacy.

2. http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=889&region=All, http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=5163&region=All. Neither of those have full sales information, so claiming they sold millions at this point is just BS. You probably threw those in hoping to deflect the next point.

3. GTA games don't mean huge opening months. 3D sandbox GTA games do. This game needs to find an audience for it's idiosyncratic style. Assuming that doesn't matter is like assuming the Star Wars Clone Wars movie should have done better because it's "Star Wars", regardless of whether the CGI style put them off (quality as well, but it's not as though the last three were big on that).