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Forums - Sales - Expectations for GTA: Chinatown Wars DS, 1st Week!!!

StarcraftManiac on 19 March 2009

How big of a game will GTA be on the DS?!

Will this game be able to make an impact with all the 'adults' and 'children' playing the DS?

Will it be worthwhile for Rockstar and be the upstart for a GTA on the Wii?

How much will this game sell in America 1st week?

Releasedate: 17th March 2009.

 

I'm expecting something around 380-430k 1st week!

Not as spectacular as the console iterations but hey, it's DS!

 

What do you think? Will it succeed or fail?



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Zucas on 19 March 2009

50k-100k if I had to take a guess.



Naum on 19 March 2009

300-400k with huge legs 50-100k /week



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ZenfoldorVGI on 19 March 2009

I bought it, so it might do well.



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Xen on 19 March 2009

220k is my prediction.



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palancas7 on 19 March 2009

If it wasn't for the rampant piracy: around 500k imo.
Now I expect about 300k



 

kirby007 on 19 March 2009

usa and others both around 70-100k



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StarcraftManiac on 19 March 2009
kirby007 said:
usa and others both around 70-100k

 

 = flop?!

Experience learns that most of the more 'core' orientated titles on the DS (and Wii) tend to have weaker 1st week sales but in % better legs... So if GTA: CW does indeed perform so badly 1st week I'm hoping that it'll crawl to at least 1.5 million!

I know anything below 1 million is gonna scare future GTA games the hell away from the Nintendo platforms. That's just a given! So people; lets make this work! Buy it ... It has been receiving quite some critical praise!



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TheSource on 19 March 2009

Edge online had an article where Wedbush Morgan said that 80% of DS owners are 8-16. Not sure I believe that, as I've never seen a kid or a teenager play Brain Training or some of the other 10m+ hits. But who really knows? Say it is true:

DS will be over 100m when GTA: China Town Wars releases. The reviews have been good.

Say there are only 20m people on DS interested in a GTA. When GTA IV launched on PS3 + Xbox 360 the user base of those systems was only ~30.5m.

PS3 & 360 now have a base of ~50.5m and GTAIV has sold 12m+ copies.

GTA DS will probably have a strong, but not spectacular debut, followed by long legs (maybe ~10-15k/week for a year or two?)

I don't think its impossible for it to do 3m or 4m on DS, but I'd probably put it around 2.5m in total, and maybe a 350k debut week worldwide.



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Ari_Gold on 19 March 2009

game will bomb, 100k first week