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DrPollit0 on 07 November 2009

That proves that bad sales of Chinatown Wars in Nintendo DS were not due to a hypothetical poor hardcore audience of NDS, but the problem was the game. Screw up all these analists, companies and webs that were throwing shit over NDS(and Wii! o_O) because of bad sales. I hope that people learn about that, lost their prejudices and start to understand the reality.

Bad sales of PSP version could be affected moderately cause of some factors that have been said in this thread, but the same we could say about NDS version(Nintendo platforms were not used to receive a GTA game). Anyway, sales of them are in a clearly lower level compared to other GTA games, and that fact could not be explained with arguments like "its a port", piracy or PSN.

I'm from Spain and the other day I saw ads about Chinatown Wars PSP in the subway.

Sorry for my poor english xD



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Attoyou on 07 November 2009

Its confirmed . No one cares about GTA Anymore!



Atto Suggests...:

Book - Malazan Book of the Fallen series 

Game - Metro Last Light

TV - Deadwood

Music - Forest Swords 

hanafuda on 07 November 2009

PSP owners don't want DS's sloppy seconds.



PSN - hanafuda

ArcticGabe on 07 November 2009

Another flop on PSP, the second week is even more pathetic.



GianCarmen on 07 November 2009

I am glad it bombed on the PSP. I remember how everyone bitched about how it bombed on the DS and now its killing the psp version. Something like 16,000 for the PSP and over 700,000 worldwide on the DS. who's laughing now.



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saicho on 17 November 2009

The analysis on Gamasutra based on NPD result

"The PSP version of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is particularly troubling. The PSP has played host to both Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, and each has sold particularly well. Yet in its launch month Chinatown Wars didn't even make the PSP software top 10 list at retail – it placed somewhere below #10, the PSP version of LEGO Batman.

While it is possible that some of the PSP's retail sales have moved to downloads through the PlayStation Store, we think it unlikely that those sales are the key reason for the weak retail performance."



MikeB predicts that the PS3 will sell about 140 million units by the end of 2016 and triple the amount of 360s in the long run.

mai on 16 December 2009
Mature games on Nintendo platforms

IG: Cammie Dunaway recently complained that Take-Two needed to put more marketing support behind GTA Chinatown Wars on DS. What do you think? Do publishers now have to budget even more for marketing to create extended campaigns to sell these games on Nintendo platforms?

Pachter: I don't think that Chinatown Wars failed because of poor marketing. I think that an M-rated game will have difficulty selling on the DS, since the majority of DS owners are under 17 and can't buy it. Those who are over 17 typically have a 360 or PS3 (if they are interested in M-rated content), and have already had ample opportunity to buy GTA IV on their home consoles. I just don't see the overlap between the audience for GTA and the audience for the DS. Nintendo can't fix that until they get a lot of more mature content on the DS. To answer your question, publishers have to focus content on the core demographic for each console, so that means more E- and T-rated titles for Nintendo consoles.

I think we could readily agree that GTA:CW flop on PSP was DS fault? ;)