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businessinsider.com - 4/17/2009

Take-Two's 'Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars' Bellyflops (TTWO)

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Take-Two's (TTWO) Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is dying on the shelves. We noted earlier this week that analysts were split on how well the game would do when the NPD Group reported US videogame sales for March. Estimates ranged from 450,000 units sold on the high end to as low as only ...

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GTA: Chinatown Wars Has Lackluster Sales
GEARFUSE — ... . Business Insider thinks the reason for the lack of sales is due to the fact that most DS owners are children, with which I somewhat agree. Regardless, Rockstar better start pushing this game hard or its top franchise is in for a hurtin’. Link

March wasn’t the best month for video game sales
CrunchGear — ... more than 260,000 copies of the game since its March release—well north of the 88,000 than the Web site claimed. Perhaps those guys were looking at weekly sales, not sales to date? ...

GTA Chinatown Wars sales nosedive
T3.com All — ... / Rockstar projects: Rockstar took one of the biggest selling games franchises, developed it for the biggest handheld platform (setting a new critical record at the same time) and it still bombed. It's fair to say Rockstar will be thinking long and hard about its decision to back Nintendo DS instead of the Sony PSP. And for Nintendo, it means that in future, publishers are probably going to steer clear of the DS for mature-themed titles. Link : GTA Chinatown Wars (via Business Insider ) Related links: [image]

GTA Chinatown Wars sales nosedive
T3.com News — ... one of the biggest selling games franchises,  developed it for the biggest handheld platform (setting a new critical record at the same time) and it still bombed. It's fair to say Rockstar will be thinking long and hard about its decision to back Nintendo DS instead of the Sony PSP. And for Nintendo, it means that in future, publishers are probably going to steer clear of the DS for mature-themed titles.   Link: GTA Chinatown Wars (via Business Insider)