the_dengle said:
GTA IV & V combined sold about 50 million games last gen. V was just released and is still selling quite well. That's just the two main games on PS3/360, though. The PSP and DS titles combined for an additional 15 million or so, plus there was another PS3/360 title with about 4 million sales. So that's roughly 70 million GTA sales in ONE generation. Tell me, did the Pokemon franchise sell 350 MILLION games last gen? Because that would be mighty impressive. The main thing is that there's no way in hell GTA would have sold 70 million games as a Wii & DS exclusive. There's no way GTA V could sell 30 million copies on Wii U in 3 months, exclusive or not. It's not happening. Being confined to a single platform (or a single home console and a single handheld) would be MASSIVELY detrimental to Take-Two's bottom line. They would NOT allow themselves to be put into that kind of situation. Probably not even if the market was in another PS2/XB/GCN situation. |
According to VGC GTA franchise sold about 140m and Pokémon about 230m (plus about 3 million from pikachu titles). Indeed, it isnt 5 to 1. Its closer to 2 to 1 (1.64 to be accurate).
