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Forums - Sales Discussion - Take Two explains poor Grand Theft Auto IV DLC and retail sales

I love the people quoting Pachters estimate like its fact..

And yes it's poor. They were hyping these expansions to be as big as GTA:VC... yet it'll get a fraction of its sales.



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I also think its funny that a year and a half ago all we heard was "It was a loan damn it!"

Now that it looks like the DLC didn't meet expectations it was "paid for by MS"



letsdance said:
I love the people quoting Pachters estimate like its fact..

And yes it's poor. They were hyping these expansions to be as big as GTA:VC... yet it'll get a fraction of its sales.

What are you talking about? I saw VC ads running for months, the only ads I saw for this lasted about two weeks.



themanwithnoname's law: As an America's sales or NPD thread grows longer, the probabilty of the comment "America = World" [sarcasticly] being made approaches 1.

Well, GTA 4 wasn't a great game despite incredible reviews, most people thought it was too boring and lacking the amount of fun in previous installments.

So naturally, they won't buy the DLC.



themanwithnoname said:
letsdance said:
I love the people quoting Pachters estimate like its fact..

And yes it's poor. They were hyping these expansions to be as big as GTA:VC... yet it'll get a fraction of its sales.

What are you talking about? I saw VC ads running for months, the only ads I saw for this lasted about two weeks.


http://www.gamegrep.com/news/7584-x360_exclusive_gta4_content_to_be_as_big_as_vice_city_san_andreas/

http://news.filefront.com/gta-iv-dlc-will-be-how-big/

 

http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=25486

http://www.thebitbag.com/2008/02/21/microsoft-blogger-breakfast-bullets/

"It will be bigger than a lot of people think.  GTA3 Vice City and San Andreas were basically expansions of GTA3.  Think of the DLC that way.  We are talking major expansion for GTAIV"

The Lost and Damned broke day one sales records on Xbox Live, and according to analyst Michael Pachter, it will have been downloaded 2 million times from Xbox Live by the end of the year

and remember... when he said that he also said GTA5 would launch in 2010... I dont think thats happening.



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This is Bs, those are great sales. I wonder who runs the company of Take 2?



 

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Aion said:
This is Bs, those are great sales. I wonder who runs the company of Take 2?

people who are use to seeing 15 million + sales on a single platform.

letsdance said:
I love the people quoting Pachters estimate like its fact..

And yes it's poor. They were hyping these expansions to be as big as GTA:VC... yet it'll get a fraction of its sales.

Poor...sales in the millions are poor?



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