Comments on: FEATURE: Mature Games Failing on Wii and DS – Why?

By: Chinatown Wars Headed to PSP | Game Stooge

Chinatown Wars Headed to PSP | Game Stooge — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:42:05 +0000

[...] that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be hitting the PlayStation Portable. The game had struggled on the DS despite rave reviews (including ours, selling only 110,000 worldwide in its first week – [...]

By: Princessb89

Princessb89 — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:16:39 +0000

I wonder if the GTA DS sales are low because of piracy? Whatever the case, It’s a shame that Nintendo is getting it’s kiddie image back in full force.

By: Jose

Jose — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:45:03 +0000

well its no that the games arent good, its not the genre that people want on the wii, they want great titles that the ps3 and 360 have, the want titles like resident evil 5, other great titles and series like assasins creed 2, when they said it wasn’t coming out for Wii that was a bummer, besides what is more important game play or graphics, every month i see my friend buy ps3 and 360 games for $50-60 and passing them within a day or two, they are so short! due to the high resolution of the graphics to hide away the game play, that is why they don’t publish the games for wii in which they will have to work more on game play then graphics, and they use high graphics to make up for the short or ok game play. And the games are possible but it is that the game makers and programmers are just too lazy to make them look good, see monster hunter 3 that game looks great, even the conduit has some great graphics, so those are game makers that actually try.
AND STOP SAYING THAT WII CANT DO MATURE GAMES BECAUSE IT HELL COULD. FPS are perfect for the Wii too. China town wars got higher than a 9 in game informer, and everyone i know who has it loves it.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:27:36 +0000

You say that “they can’t win for trying.” This is true. The games are there but people aren’t buying. But I know some who are and they really enjoy the games. I hope they do not stop trying because they cannot win. I think, given time, these games will succeed especially given the interactivity with the Nintendo console.

By: LeslieLu

LeslieLu — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:46:57 +0000

Loads of people are playing Chinatown Wars–but they’re just not paying for it. The demographic that plays it, is savvy enough to know how to download DS games.

By: Jordan Lund

Jordan Lund — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:27:01 +0000

Like I say in the article… CTW was released to an audience of 34 million people and it sold to 89,000 of them. That’s a pretty pathetic market penetration.

The PSP GTA games had a smaller audience and sold more.

Therein lies the problem, it seems that on Nintendo platforms if your game doesn’t feature cute puppies, Mario or some gimmick attachment for the controller it sells like crap.

Even if your game is the best reviewed game of the year so far.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:23:27 +0000

Um… so why is it the GTA: Chinatown Wars is seen as doing super poorly? Comparing it to Vice City Stories seems to prove that it is doing okay. If that one sold almost 1.5 million, then Chinatown should sell around that. But look at the games. Yea, so Chinatown got SOME very good reviews and others were decent… but look at the games pics. Most people see that style of game and think ehhhh it looks very NES GTA-like. I don’t think I wana pay that much for a game like that… or better yet, the majority of DS owners may not even know about the NES games and see Chinatown as a weird cheap rip off of the new versions. As for Madworld, the type of game it is and the reviews don’t match. The reviews aren’t too high and the game just looks mysterious… nobody has come out with a good preview/review of it.

By: james

james — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:13:43 +0000

people only buy Nintendo’s consoles for mario, zelda and pokomon games

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:55:18 +0000

Wii games sell very slowly. Call of Duty: World at War on the Wii sold 40,000 in it’s first week. Now it has reached 1.07 million copies.

MadWorld and GTA: CTW will hit 1 million, but it will take time.