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chris1_16 on 06 January 2009

I don't think it'll happen



 

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Barozi on 06 January 2009

If they have take a look at the sales of No More Heroes.... I guess they won't



famousringo on 06 January 2009
Oyvoyvoyv said:
famousringo said:

Not enough to post profits...

 

They're turning profit on the Wii - that's for sure.

Sure, they might have lost money on

Go Diego Go! Safari Rescue (250K sold)

Dora Saves the Snow Princess (140K and selling)

The Bigs (320K)

Table Tennis (170K)

No, wait, they earned heaps on that. My mistake :P

They are also definitely earning money on the 2nd best selling 3rd party game on Wii...

 

Oh, I didn't mean to suggest that they weren't making money on the Wii, I'm just saying that money is going somewhere, and it's not to Take 2's shareholders.



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Groucho on 06 January 2009

I'll tell you this, if a Wii GTA comes, and it underperforms, the Wii will *never* get decent 3rd party support. That'll be all the proof the 3rd party publishers need to keep avoiding it with traditional demographic targetted games.

I hope the Wii does get a GTA... and it better be damn good.  If its not stellar, then I'd prefer one never showed.



Johann on 06 January 2009

If the Nintendo keeps these sales up, every 3rd party franchise will go its way or its successor eventualy. I just hope the Wii2 accepts GC controles.



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Barozi on 06 January 2009
Soriku said:
Barozi said:
If they have take a look at the sales of No More Heroes.... I guess they won't

Suda's best selling game ever?

I just compared the GTA series to a game which comes close to the sandbox genre (Do you know a game on the Wii which is better comparable ? I didn't found one)

Rockstar wouldn't be pleased with a GTA game on a major platform, which would struggle to reach 5 million.



jammy2211 on 06 January 2009
Oyvoyvoyv said:
Munkeh111 said:
Killergran said:
Munkeh111 said:
No R* will be happy with the +15m sales that GTA IV will end up with

What do you mean by this? Are you being sarcastic?

Why would anyone be happy with what they got, when they can aim for more?

 

They made a game which was the second  best reviewed game of all time and sold incredibly well, so why would they want to change everything?

 

@ peachbuggy, you are comparing a game with Mario in the title, directed towards Wii owners with a game that does not fit the system's demographic, GTA is much better suited on the PS360, which have the more violent games, Wii may have MadWorld, but PS360 have 10 more. It will be interesting how well it sells on DS though

I don't know how little GTA fits with the Wiis base. I mean, the Wii one is the closest one to the Ps2 one.

 Also, what is he comparing?

A game that sold 7M & 4M last gen

The best selling franchise last gen

Also, the Wii wouldn't need to be even close to as largely scaled, and could easily have less than 1/10th of the budget (GTA IV = 100M, SMG was 15M, they're not going to make it costier than SMG)

 

I'd still say that GTA should stay at Ps3/X360 though, as its sales will probably be at least 2x the size over a Wii version.

But heck, why don't they port GTA:SA/VC on 1 disc over to Wii? That would cash in a fair amount...

Oh what the hell, Take2 is probably earning heaps on the Wii already.

 

 

 Surely the $100M for GTA is including marketing, whereas the SMG figure is just developement costs?

 No way did GTA cost $100M to develope, or did SMG's marketing cost less then $15M lol. Anyone got any sources on these figures as I've seen them a few times and not sure where they came from.

 Scratch that, I've seen in an interview that the president guy said GTA had a 'production budget' of $100M. Surely that includes marketing... right? :/ Also just found that GTA IV brought in revenue of $710, I don't even know how that is possible.



Barozi on 06 January 2009
Soriku said:
Barozi said:
Soriku said:
Barozi said:
If they have take a look at the sales of No More Heroes.... I guess they won't

Suda's best selling game ever?

I just compared the GTA series to a game which comes close to the sandbox genre (Do you know a game on the Wii which is better comparable ? I didn't found one)

Rockstar wouldn't be pleased with a GTA game on a major platform, which would struggle to reach 5 million


This is GTA we're talking about...not a Suda game. And NMH sold 400k and that's a niche game from a niche dev. GTA is WAAAAY more popular. A new GTA built from the ground up for Wii and advertised would probably sell 2-3 million.

TT  already said they can't ignore the Wii's userbase.

You know they would probably lose about 10 million fans, if the game only sells 2-3 million units.

Baaaad start for the next gen.



izaaz101 on 06 January 2009

I don't think that GTA V will come to the wii, but it will probably be getting its own version, like the DS.

And a question: Does Rockstar re-use their engines?



RPGJock on 06 January 2009

Honestly, I want to see what happen when a GTA game meets the family friendly Wii. We will then see who's console it really is... Because if you don't think all the hockey moms and grandparents pitch a fit over a GTA game on the same console that their family plays on, think again...



I'm just saying...