Legend11 on 29 November 2007
The combined sales of the last main installment in the GTA series is around 17 million, the one before that sold 16.42 million. Now compare that to the Smash series with 6.58 million and 5.5 million. That's a pretty big difference in numbers.
Also people talking about attachment rates, well pretty much everyone buying a 360 and PS3 right now is a hardcore gamer, the same ones that would be attracted to a game like GTAIV. On the other hand the Wii has a split userbase in which there are millions of casuals.
I don't know what to say. I guess some people were expecting Super Mario Galaxy to hit 20 million at some point so I guess stuff like this shouldn't come as a surprise.
