| Shanobi said: 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? |
Using Halo as an example is stupid. It's a MS owned IP and would appear on either 360, Zune or Xbox Live. Nothing else.
1. Zune has nowhere NEAR the install base of DS. Although a Halo game would move a lot of Zune's, due to the Halo faithful.
2. On Xbox Live, it would break 1 Million easily, proably within a Month. The Halo crowd would eat it up straight away, just like they did with ODST and Halo Wars (The best selling RTS on consoles).
3. If it WAS on something other than any of the above. And was on, for example, PSP... It would still sell quite well due to the demographics of the platform. Probably 2-3 Million.
But, your last paragraph has me thinking... Do you think that GTA should stay away from DS and/or Wii? Due to the audience being on the HD consoles?
