So, megaflop GTA: CW for DS reached 1M

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Carl2291 said:

theRepublic said:

Carl2291 said:

theRepublic said:

Carl2291 said:

theRepublic said:

A troll post puts it perfectly?  You have got to be kidding.

Minus the "flop" bit. All of what he said was fact.

If you think posting facts is trolling, you obviously have a severe case of "I must refute anything negative Nintendo" syndrome.

It was a troll post from a user with 11 posts, and you know it.

All his post showed was that 3D GTAs on consoles sell a lot better than 2D GTA on a portable.  It even left out the other 2D versions, and other portable versions.

It is clear that the market prefers 3D GTA to 2D GTA.  Is it really a surprise that a 2D GTA coming out 10 years after 2D GTA was somewhat popular didn't sell like the much more popular, more recent 3D GTAs?

And what is with the personal attacks?  I guess you have nothing more constructive to add to the discussion.

He posted facts. GTA was made into a MEGA selling franchise by those said GTA games. When on a system that is by far the most popular ever, GTa should manage to sell at least on par with the lowest selling of the gen, which would in this case be Vice City Stories.

As for the "personal attacks", that's coming from someone who calls some other guy a troll because he has 11 posts and posted facts..?

You are purposely ignoring that the games are very different.  That is like comparing the sales of 2D Mario and 3D Mario and expecting them to sell the same.

Yes, what is probably an alt with a GoW avatar posting completely misleading facts.

That doesn't matter. I'm not expecting it to sell GTA:SA levels. I'm expecting it to sell at LEAST 5 Million. It's a Grand Theft Auto game on the most popular platform ever. Stop making excuses for it. People were expecting it to be HUGE before it released. It sold poorly for a GTA game. Fact.

Can you prove he is an alt? And the facts aren't misleading at all... You just don't want to hear them. They are GTA sales figures on the 2 most sold platforms to date. GTA DS should have done much, much more. Again, not GTA San Andreas levels of sales, but at least doing GTA VCS like sales.

Now i ask you. Simple question, needs a yes or no answer. Did GTA:CW sell below par for a GTA game?

You are asking gamers who enjoy GTA, to accept that a game that looks like this:

 

Now, many Nintendo fans are willing to step back and play games that have retro looks. But you Sony and Microsoft "hardcore" do nothing but talk about graphics all day. Then when a GTA game comes to a platform that 1) has never had GTA, and 2) has gamers who are more open-minded to new, or even retro, experiences comes out and doesn't sell insane numbers AS FAST as the previous games you cry that the game is a failure because it hasn't posted 6 million in sales.

 

Again, I ask you in all seriousness: Do you believe that if Halo appeared on ANY PLATFORM HANDHELD other than ZUNE, and looked akin to the image created, that Halo fans are going to go out and buy both the game and platform that they don't support? Do you really believe that Halo Warz would sell the same, or even 2/3's of the same numbers as Halo 3?