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City17 on 13 April 2009

 

 

EEDAR’s Jesse Divnich said today an approximate 200,000 sales for GTA: Chinatown Wars in the US last month proves M-rated games are a “risky” business on DS.

“It appears the industry may have been over-zealous with initial expectations on how GTA: Chinatown Wars would perform based upon the news it had received one of the highest quality scores for a Nintendo DS title,” says Divnich.

Quality scores alone don’t seem to be a major driver of sales on the DS, said the analyst.

“The results from Chinatown are an important benchmark for the industry, as it will be the best-performing mature rated title on the Nintendo DS to date coupled with one of the strongest mature-rated game brands,” he added.

 

http://www.vg247.com/2009/04/13/eedar-limited-chinatown-wars-sales-prove-risk-for-m-rated-ds-titles/

 

What is YOUR opinion?

 

 

 



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megaman79 on 13 April 2009

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh






Patience grasshopper. (ehhhh is my new catch phrase, it takes less effort when responding to Nintendophobia)



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

alfredofroylan on 13 April 2009

Already posted:

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=67935&page=1



megaman79 on 13 April 2009

huh? theres nothing posted in that link.

 

Weird, my mistake sorry

 



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

theRepublic on 13 April 2009

Try this link

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=67935&page=1



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City17 on 13 April 2009

My apologies to Starscream and the VGChartz community for missing the other thread.