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With the NPD group confirming that “Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars” sold an un-”GTA”-like 89,000 units between its March 17 launch and April 4, the question turns to gamers:
If you’re a “GTA” fan who has purchased games like “Grand Theft Auto IV,” but didn’t buy “Chinatown Wars,” why not?
http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/...hinatown-wars/
Simple economics. I'm broke outside of the essentials (which do nto include gaming, ok that's an 'essential' but not like food, water, electricity, and 'have to' bills).
I didn't buy it because I don't really care for the GTA series.
I only use the DS for Homebrew, but the low figures most likely stem from the same audience that enjoys GTA also owns an adapter capable of pirating. Anyone who pirated GTA:CW hopefully won't bitch when no more mature titles arrive and are replaced with the next Babyz or Dogz title.
I´m bored of GTA now and will not buy another one. It was fun while it lasted though.
...Because I'm cheap and I downloaded it. Played it for 3 days, never to touch it again. Its now been deleted from my card to make room for other junk.
because my ds lite got nicked, and i didn't have the cash to get a dsi and gta at the same time. will buy it tomorrow, though.
Rented it. Yawned. Returned it.
i think crookedmouth got it right. Pirating on the ds is too easy.
I would venture the guess that the typical GTA player has been a dedicated graphics whore since GTA3, and believes the DS to be beneath him, as it doesn't do a bazillion polys with a bazillion particles at 60 FPS.
The PSP GTA didn't do too well either, until someone figured out it was an attack vector for getting into the system guts.
bought it today. £20, it cost me. also got dragon ball origins and final fantasy 4.
all ds games should top out at the £20 price bracket - i got mine from a games store in reading, and the game was brand new sealed.
The DSi just got released in the US on April 5th which is almost 3 weeks after GTA:CW was released. Do you think people who don't own a DS yet were maybe were waiting to buy the DSi and then CW?
Also, heads up, I found a contest from GameStop to win a mob boss experience: www.gamestopchinatown.com
I bought it.
I miss the 16bit days. :(
Bought it too. Best DS game ! It teaches a big lesson in term of programing to many other DS dev, but also to it's own nextgen big brother in term of richness and replayability.