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Its not Fair comparing GTA:CTW Sales to PSP GTA games Period (Analysis)!

Right before everyone says DAMAGE CONTROL (lol I don't even own a DS so don't pull that one on me)

How can ANYONE even dare to compare GTA:CTW sales to the PSP Versions

First lets look at the past......a BLAST from the past if you want:

http://www.vgchartz.com/games/index.php?&results=50&name=grand%20theft%20auto&console=&keyword=&publisher=&genre=&order=Sales&boxart=Both&showdeleted=&region=All&alphasort=

the 3D GTA's all SOLD in excess of 10 Million........the highest GTA:SA with 17.79 Million

The highest selling PSP GTA game (LCS) was 5.67 Million.......the lowest selling VCS was 3.37 Million

so basically GTA LCS got only 31% of GTA SA's fanbase.......while

GTA:VCS got 19% of GTA:SA's fanbase

BUT to be fair lets take the AVERAGE of all the 3 PS2 GTA games.....it comes out to be ~ 14.53 Million

So the PSP GTA's (taking their average) got around 31% of the PS2 GTA's Fanbase!

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now GTA:CTW is a 2D GTA game......so lets the take the average of the PS1 2D GTA's.....

its comes out to be ~ 2.87 Million (between GTA I & GTA II)

Now for GTA:CTW to be FAIRLY COMPARED to the PSP Versions sales.....we must find 31% of 2.87 Million = 0.889 Million

So the conclusion is:

For GTA:CTW to be FAIRLY compared to the PSP GTA's we MUST compare it to the PS1 GTA's (as they are 2D) in the same way that we compared the PSP GTA's to the PS2 ones (as they are 3D)

so GTA:CTW needs to sell around 900K to technically get the SAME % of the 2D GTA's userbase as the PSP GTA's got from the 3D GTA's

In Short

If GTA:CTW Sell 900K its "AS SUCCESSFUL" as the PSP ones.....& NO-ONE should complain!! (oh and it'll probably BLOW PAST that mark)

darthdevidem01 - contributor
Published: 254 days 3 hours ago | User Blog Post | Sony PSP | Nintendo DS
 
 

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butterfinger - 255 days 6 hours ago
1 - Lame.
Honestly comparing GTA:CW to the PS1 GTA games does not make sense just because they are both 2D. The DS game is very different from the PSP games, yes, but that doesn't make up for the fact that there are over 100,000,000 DS handhelds out there, and about half of that for the PSP. M-rated games will not sell well on the DS, just like they don't sell well on the Wii. These sales have nothing to do with whether or not the game is great, so why worry about it?
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xabmol - 253 days 23 hours ago
2 - FAIR?!
Who's the fu*kin nihilist here?! What are you, a bunch of fu*king crybabies?!

/Walter Sobchak


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starcraft2fan - 253 days 19 hours ago
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Dude, your formatting is astonishingly poor.

Although your argument does make some sense, saying a NINTENDO game is comparable to a SONY game is preposterous.
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pixelsword - 253 days 19 hours ago
4 - The fault in your logic is
that you are using 2D and 3D sales to directly link PSP and DS users to sales percentages while ignoring the fact that no one knows how many went from the PS1 or PS2 to the PSP or DS.
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peeps - 253 days 13 hours ago
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i very much doubt the sales are down to it being 2d or 3d.

the sales are down to the fact that the ds's fanbase isn't interested in a game like gta/ they're not actually old enough to play it. Nintendo fanboys may take that as a dig but it's just the truth, nothing to do with the quality of the game, it's to do with the audience the game is aimed at
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whooda - 253 days 8 hours ago
6 - ohhhhh
did u 4 get psp has hackers all over the world that means Ur info is not valet until u count the counterfeited gta's too
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Hisiru - 251 days 8 hours ago
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humm... i am not sure if this is right....
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Tachyon_Nova - 246 days 17 hours ago
8 - This guy needs to...
learn something about relevance. The fact that it is a 2D game has no bearing on the matter, and all that matters is that the DS has no support from actuall gamers, just little girls, and yor grandma
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Hisiru - 246 days 2 hours ago
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This is funny, because the game already sold 400k worldwide, the Vice city stories did almost 150k in the first months, and the Chinatown wars dont did more in march because he was released on 17 march.

If the DS have a great instal base or not, the game is selling more than Vice City Stories, the DS gamers are giving more support for the Chinatown wars than the PSp gamers in the Vice city stories. For sure will give for more profit than the Vice City Stories in the end, even more because the cost of production of the game. And yes, it has nothing to do with 2D and 3D

go to the vgchartz to compare and stop being fanboy, please, we all can be friends.
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wazzim - 242 days 9 hours ago
8.2 - Hisiru
First, GTA LCS (wich used the GTA3 engine) still blows CTW away.
Second, the costs of VCS were less than CTW because they used a tweaked LCS engine.
GTA+PSP>GTA+DS PERIOD
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Hisiru - 242 days 7 hours ago
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"First, GTA LCS (wich used the GTA3 engine) still blows CTW away. "
this is what a fanboy said. The numbers in the vgchartz said other thing. Here you can see:
"The second handheld GTA, PSP's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (released October 31, 2006 in North America), sold 50,670 units for the Americas in its opening week. In 4 weeks time the accumulated North American sales was 134,275 units."
http://news.vgchartz.com/ne...
in 4 weeks CHW did more, he did 200k units (so... CHW did better in the first week and in the first 4 weeks =D)

"Second, the costs of VCS were less than CTW because they used a tweaked LCS engine."
this is what a fanboy said, only the Rockstar knows about this, and if the CHW is selling more than VCS (in EUA) the game will make more profit than VCS =D.
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