Age limits never stopped me from buying a mature game back in the day.
Give the game a month before declairing a failure. Anyone who claims a game has failed after a week or 2 in existence has no clue about how Nintendo games sell.
| Declan said: By GTA standards, CW's opening week was modest to say the least. Many are already calling the game a sales failure in relation to the size of the DS userbase. However, I think a couple of things are often ignored in the thought process that reaches such a conclusion: 1) GTA is very much targeted to a male audience. I'd be surprised if females accounted for as much as 5% of GTA IV's sales. The DS userbase is around 50% female. 2) CW is an 18-rated game. I really don't know what the average age DS owners is, but school kids undoubtedly account for a large proportion of them. If the target audience for a GTA game is males who are over 18, people shouldn't be looking for huge numbers from CW. The target audience may account for less than a quarter of DS owners. |
Only .14% of DS owners bought the game first week
1- 50% of 100 million is 50 million (that's a huge number!)
2- Age limit's never bothered me, I use to buy 18 or M rated games all the time when I was younger and I was always able to buy it, no one really looks at that except parents.
It should of done atlease a million worlwide
But everyone says it'll have legs? so we'll just have to wait and see.
I think it's time Nintendo fans just sit down and admit to themselves that third-party games never sell on Nintendo systems. It's a fact of life, as unavoidable as death and taxes, which is why we're seeing developers move towards non-Nintendo systems in greater numbers.
Chinatown Wars is just the latest symbol of this ineffable truth: learn to live with it.
| Gilgamesh said: It should of done atlease a million worlwide |
What is your basis for this grammatically incorrect, syntactically incorrect and punctuation lacking statement?
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It is largely a technical exercise but feedback is appreciated.
Demotruk said:
What is your basis for this grammatically incorrect, syntactically incorrect and punctuation lacking statement? |
It's a Grand Theft Auto game! why wouldn't it do good, 140K first week is not exceptable in my book, especially on a platform that has an install base of over 100 million consumer's.
(^No grammar mistakes in that, you happy now?)
Gilgamesh said:
It's a Grand Theft Auto game! why wouldn't it do good, 140K first week is not exceptable in my book, especially on a platform that has an install base of over 100 million consumer's. (^No grammar mistakes in that, you happy now?) |
The "W" in "why" should be capitalized, and that clause is a rhetorical sentence, so it needs a question mark. Additionally, it becomes a run-on sentence. "140k first week" is acceptable, but only just: please make it "140k in first week sales" to clarify what is the subject of the sentence. Additionally, there should not be an apostrophe in "consumers," as that is the possessive form.
And "you happy now" is a fragment.
Edit: And "exceptable" is not a word.
I don't agree with 50% of the DS' user base being female.
Are you really going to tell me that gaming is as popular for females as it is for males? I'm not buying it.
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noname2200 said:
The "W" in "why" should be capitalized, and that clause is a rhetorical sentence, so it needs a question mark. Additionally, it becomes a run-on sentence. "140k first week" is acceptable, but only just: please make it "140k in first week sales" to clarify what is the subject of the sentence. Additionally, there should not be an apostrophe in "consumers," as that is the possessive form. And "you happy now" is a fragment.
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Don't forget the spelling error!
| izaaz101 said: Don't forget the spelling error! |
JUST tossed that in!
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