This was was left in to shadows because of fuss about Madworld so...

I think its very very low considering

1:Huge DS userbase

2:Its GTA, one of the most famous series of all time

3:It has 94 on metacritic

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Hardly any advertising over here in the UK.

I've saw a tv ad once in the week...I saw the 360 ad for downloadable GTA IV content around 20 times.

Wait and see. 1st weeks may account for 50% of some games' sales on some systems, but on Nintendo systems the figure is much lower. This could still top a million in Europe.

Well I see advertizing for it all the time, normally around 8-9 p.m. CT. I think it personally should have been done for the DS and PSP, It may never see 500k sales because it is on the DS.

Well it's only been out a couple of days, the advertising has been useless so I think its good. I think it should hit 700k - 1 million in others.

it's low? not so much:
Brain Age 34k first week/8.75mln LTD
Brain Age 2 48k first week/5.4mln LTD
Sonic rush 13k first week/1.72mln LTD
guitar hero DS 48k first week/810k LTD
Animal Crossing 66k first week/3.09mln LTD
FF XII 23k first week/430k LTD
my sims 40k first week/1.70mln LTD
touchmaster 10k first week/1.19mln LTD
lego star wars 24k first week/950k LTD

Seriously, when are these posts going to end? When will people wake up and realize that this is how sales work on Nintendo systems?

Nintendo fans don't camp out overnight to get the latest releases, they buy them over time. It seems no matter how many times sales statistics are trouted out, it doesn't seem to sink into people's minds.

This game will chart well over 1 million in Europe. It will probably hit over 2 million.

As Waron posted, and I just made referance to, first week sales on Nintendo systems MEAN NOTHING. EVER. EVER. EVER.

The end.

I think a 60k+ debut for GTA might not seem too enthousiastic! But given the legs that are so common on Nintendo platforms nowadays it might still crack a million in that region! We all know GTA has a strong brand name, and that games are able to maintain steady sales in the others region with such a debut for the DS (and Wii). So I'm guessing this might be a hit in the long run, not so much for the debut. But that was the same for a lot of games!

Also; I think we can expect a 80-110k debut in the US! And given the userbase of the DS, GTA brandname etc... It will definitely be able to reach 2.5 million worldwide! Satisfying Nintendo, the public and Take 2 (Rockstar). I believe they (Rockstar) know all too well that this game wouldn't debut to more then 200k sales, but I guess they gambled on the legs. And I believe they gambled right.

And one more thing; Take 2 and Rockstar have to be financialy healthy. In order to accomplish such a thing for every fiscal year they will have to get somebig hitters out on the Nintendo platforms too! And there's no better way for paving the succes of the GTA franchise on the Nintendo platforms then releasing a DS version! Potentially with a succesor in 1.5-2 years which will follow the same sales patern only elevated by 1.5 (that's at least what I hope).

Thus paving the way for a split in the GTA series. One on the HD consoles and one on the Nintendo platforms!

2 days?

xD same excuses as at Madworld.And same stuff how first week for some games is 1k and lifetime is now 1m.
Surely it think it will do over million but we are talking about its first week, not lifetime.