Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is dying on the shelves.

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#51 subrosian
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This will continue to sell for along time. I'm surprised everyone is worried >_>Grinning_Demon
As Tim Schafer said - gamers tend to worry too much about sales. We have a whole collective of people on this site who run "buy _________ game" campaigns for every damn Wii game, and y'know what? Not needed. The DS / Wii doom for adult-oriented games wasn't caused by lack of sales on the Wii. It was caused by the *plethora* of sales on the 360, PS3, and PC - which can all be developed for simultaneously. - But frankly, this game will continue to sell for far longer than a console game would. We forget sometimes, if we're talking about the DS audience, there are a lot of people on that platform who don't buy games at launch. They see a game they want and put it on their birthday or Christmas list, or they plan to pick it up next time they go on a business trip... it's not as much a system of "having the latest game", especially since there's not the same online community. - A big reason the PS3, 360, and PC can drive early adoption is because people's friends get the latest game, are playing online, and so to play with their friends they go pick it up as well.
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#52 PSdual_wielder
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If Chinatown Wars is dying, what the hell is Retribution doing? Is it already dead?

But as Divnich pointed out, the game's profits will be long-term, not short term.

Just like the initial skepticism of the game's quality, there is little hope here, but I'm confident the same thing will happen; haters will be owned.

WAIW

I think Retribution is selling well, if not decent.

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#53 darth-pyschosis
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1. the DS has more A, AA, AAA adult games (and by adult i mean games that require intelligence, strategy, not blood and guts) than the PSP will have any A, AA, AAA games released in 2009

2. so 88k in 13 days is bad? it came out in NA on March 17th, didn't even get on shelves until March 18th like every game has a one day ddelay til their on shelves after release dates

3. so it isn't dying. it could be said it is dieingon store shelves, but that too would be inaccurate.

is this the only thing anti-DS people have to cling to?

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#54 kingdre
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Poor sales doesn't necessarily make it a bad game.

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#55 lantus
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I didn't expect it to sell gang busters just because it's GTA. Making a game where your audience clearly isn't established, on a different platform is very risky, another upcoming example is Monster Hunter 3, there's a good chance the fanbase doesn't transfer over from PSP. Such is the nature of trying to expand, there are much more failures than success' in this industry.

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#56 Rahnyc4
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[QUOTE="WAIW"]

If Chinatown Wars is dying, what the hell is Retribution doing? Is it already dead?

But as Divnich pointed out, the game's profits will be long-term, not short term.

Just like the initial skepticism of the game's quality, there is little hope here, but I'm confident the same thing will happen; haters will be owned.

PSdual_wielder

I think Retribution is selling well, if not decent.

i think its not selling at all.
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#57 WAIW
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[QUOTE="WAIW"]

If Chinatown Wars is dying, what the hell is Retribution doing? Is it already dead?

But as Divnich pointed out, the game's profits will be long-term, not short term.

Just like the initial skepticism of the game's quality, there is little hope here, but I'm confident the same thing will happen; haters will be owned.

PSdual_wielder

I think Retribution is selling well, if not decent.

It's doing worse than Chinatown Wars, that's for sure.

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#58 JLF1
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It's doing worse than Chinatown Wars, that's for sure.

WAIW

On retail yes but it's also available on the PSN store as DD.