CEO Ben Feder says even sure-fire hits can fail on handheld due to illegal downloads.
Rampant piracy is the real reason for GTA: Chinatown Wars' slow sales according to Take-Two CEO Ben Feder.
On paper, Chinatown Wars should have been a massive success when it launched on the Nintendo DS a year ago.
Beginning today, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars are now available for GTA+ Members to play on compatible iOS and Android devices.
Sweet. I loved Liberty City Stories despite the city being empty. Those main story missions were tough but fun.
vgPWN: "Let's pour one out for these games that were awesome, but just didn't sell like gangbusters."
I remember when my friend introduced me to Shenmue II years ago. I went out and bought myself Shenmue for my Dreamcast and Shenmue II for my Xbox. Still got them to this day.
GameCrate: "We take a look at five games and franchises that would be perfect for garnering some potentially strong third-party support (which we're well aware isn't Nintendo's strong point)."
Why do people think putting an M-rated game on Nintendo console will signal an influx of more M-rated title? We've had many M-rated games on Nintendo consoles since the N64. If third parties don't feel that it's profitable to do so in the past 20 years, I doubt they'll change their mind in the next 20 years
i want cod battlefield and gta oh yeah nintendo will win console war easily with those big sellers with better graphics and fps than ps4
It's too late bruh the PS4 took over like 80% of 8th gen home console market share. It will sell like the N64 at best. Unless they are waiting for 9th gen or something which by then will be too late. We all know Nintendo doesn't care about 3rd party. The consoles they create are for their benefit and only their benefit. They do not go to other companies and ask what they may need/want in a console so they can grow and thrive. They are stubborn and do not improve their consoles. They do not live or die on 3rd party and thus are on a one man island.
Sadly to say, but when it comes to Nintendo home consoles, they are almost irrelevant to the average person. Yes the wii Nintendo's best selling console was relevant, but I honestly think it was just a fluke.
Unless Playstation stops getting lots Japanese games I like each gen, then I'll stick with them.
Nintendo needs to bring in more struggling developers in Japan who are still obsessed with Sony, who isn't selling well over there, which is exacerbating their struggles further. Might be able to sell more NXs if it becomes THE place for Japanese niche titles.
Want to know why it didn't sell as well as expected on the DS? because people don't buy the DS to shoot up pimps and run down hoes, they buy it to play mario, pokemon or nintendogs.
Want to know why it didn't sell well on the PSP? because people don't want to go from sandbox PS2 style GTA games to the classic top-down viewed PSX games, the graphical and gameplay differences are huge.
Oh let's not forget that the game is a direct port from the DS with barely more then a resolution upsize, also the fact that you then went on later to release the game for iphone/ipod at a much lower price.
Sure the game was pirated, but if you think piracy killed it's sales your wrong, you made one terrible choice after another and basically killed the game by yourselves.
I played it for a bit and it was not fun at all. The DS is not designed for that siht no matter how much nintendo payed them to make it. It failed because it was a bad idea from the get go. I didn't even bother to "download" it to my psp let alone buy it for psp because the ds version was so bad. GTA needs to stick to consoles!
i just bought the game new yesterday lol.
what are the developers going to do next....when it was mostly only PC games getting pirated it was like everyone shook their fingers at pc gamers and said how naughty they were... now look at the consoles and handhelds...you can get almost every major 360 game on a torrent before it even releases...not that I would...I don't need to steal games...I have a job and I wouldn't put any sub-hd 576p crap on my 2000 dollar plasma anyway.
Newsflash...poor people and scumbags will pirate anything they can...be it games, movies, music, software, gucci handbags...whatever...lol...po oooooor people
Chinatown Wars has sold 1 million copies..so where is the suffer? :P