|
|
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Fails in SalesRockstar's latest release in the notorious Grand Theft Auto series has failed in reaching even the gloomier sales predictions after the US audience bought only 82,000 copies of the new Chinatown Wars in the first month of its release. For the sake of comparison, the number 1 selling game at the same platform (Nintendo DS) and same month (March 09), Pokemon Platinum, sold 805,000 copies, small numbers comparing to the downloads record broken by GTA's previous release, The Lost and Dammed, on its first week.
Although GTA: Chinatown Wars gained outstandingly positive reviews – 94% from the Official Nintendo Magazine, full five stars from GamePro, a round 10 score from GameRadar and an average of 93.333 from IGN – its sales did not meet with the anyway low expectations – to sell around 200,000 copies according to once source or to reach similar sales as Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories did according to another.
What makes Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars the highest ranked lowest sold game, if not in the history of video games, in the history of the GTA games.
Chinatown Wars is also the least fire attracting game in the series known outside the gamers' community for its controversies; not that it lacked the standard dosage of sex, drugs, graphic violence and foul language, not the most appropriate ingredients for the stereotypical younger Nintendo DS users. What brings us to question the suitability of that certain game with that specific console; could it be that GTA's devotees are devoted more to the console than not to the game? Would it sell better coming out on a different platform? To answer these, we will have to wait to the download version.
|
