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Stefan.De.Machtige on 30 April 2017

Go go Nintendo .



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Johnw1104 on 30 April 2017
Carl2291 said:
Johnw1104 said:
I have to know, how on earth are there still so many people who haven't bought GTA V?

There's a lot of double-dippers in GTAV's total. Skews that total audience.

I'm also a double dipper (PS3 and PS4). What has me puzzled is that there's so many people still buying it lol... they've had plenty of time.



Soundwave on 30 April 2017
Johnw1104 said:
Carl2291 said:

There's a lot of double-dippers in GTAV's total. Skews that total audience.

I'm also a double dipper (PS3 and PS4). What has me puzzled is that there's so many people still buying it lol... they've had plenty of time.

GTAV is freaking insane. I don't think I've ever seen a game perform like it does and I've watched the industry for a long, long time. 

Even though it's not my thing, I think Nintendo should be giving Take 2 a call about a port right about now. 



COKTOE on 30 April 2017
Carl2291 said:
Johnw1104 said:
I have to know, how on earth are there still so many people who haven't bought GTA V?

There's a lot of double-dippers in GTAV's total. Skews that total audience.

Even with that taken into consideration, it's probably gone beyond anybody's expectations. A terrifying, marauding, sales monster. Speaking of expectations, good on the Switch yet again. I wasn't thinking it would be a flop or anything, but it's current trajectory is exceeding what I thought it would do.



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Lawlight on 30 April 2017

I wonder how many copies that is.



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Stefan.De.Machtige on 30 April 2017
Soundwave said:
Johnw1104 said:

I'm also a double dipper (PS3 and PS4). What has me puzzled is that there's so many people still buying it lol... they've had plenty of time.

GTAV is freaking insane. I don't think I've ever seen a game perform like it does and I've watched the industry for a long, long time. 

Even though it's not my thing, I think Nintendo should be giving Take 2 a call about a port right about now. 

Take 2 might go for it without much money at all.

A last port of GTAV on a hybrid device could be last possible market for the game. I could see people doubledip to play GTAV again between waiting or odd hours, when only a mobile device can be used. None of the other ports could allow that feature.



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p0isonparadise on 30 April 2017

Nice to see quality back on top in the UK.



Jranation on 30 April 2017

OH YAS! Nintend is BACK! xD



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F.Scofield on 30 April 2017

I'm more impressed by the zelda bump to 5th, something tells me this title will have huge legs, it definitely beat skyward sword ltd by now



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ZhugeEX on 30 April 2017

Strong performance for Mario Kart 8. Nintendo has an extremely strong first year line up of first party games. All of them are going to do extremely well. 

 

Carl2291 said:
Johnw1104 said:
I have to know, how on earth are there still so many people who haven't bought GTA V?

There's a lot of double-dippers in GTAV's total. Skews that total audience.

 

Not quite. A lot of the people purchasing Grand Theft Auto V are new console buyers. GTA V sales strongly correlate to sales of new consoles. 

It's the #1 purchase for new PS4 and XB1 buyers this gen and the Online component is still very popular as reflected by Take Two's quarterly earnings.