Fri, Apr 17, 2009 | 07:57 BST
March NPD: GTA Chinatown Wars sales less than 100,000 in US, says report
SAI is citing “industry sources” as claiming GTA: Chinatown Wars achieved only 88,704 sales in the US last month.
There’s been no official comment from NPD as yet.
Predictions on the game’s sales varied heavily in the run-up to last night’s figure-release, with 200,000 the lowest guess.
Looks as though it was worse than anyone imagined.
Hopefully we’ll get solid confirmation soon.
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Posted in: Action, America, DS, DSi, Hot, Retail, Rockstar, Trade
Tags: gta: chinatown wars, march npd 2009
10 comments
#1
Mike
17/04/09, 8:01 am
Criminal.
(gettit!)
#2
Shatner
17/04/09, 8:12 am
Shame. It’s an amazing game. It’s been advertised to high-hell also.
#3
Blerk
17/04/09, 8:33 am
That’s really terrible, and a great shame too. I guess DS owners really don’t want this kind of thing.
#4
Mike
17/04/09, 8:36 am
It really is worthy of the system seller, tag. One of the best games I’ve played in a long old while.
#5
G1GAHURTZ
17/04/09, 8:42 am
Maybe it’s just not the kind of game that people want to play on the go…
#6
deftangel
17/04/09, 9:05 am
You could say that about the PSP incarnations G1GA maybe but I found it quite easy to knock over a couple of missions on the commute to work where I only get short bursts before changing trains/tubes etc. It’s easy to suspend too, if I was in the middle of something.
Hopefully it’ll just keep selling well over time. I can’t believe out of 100m users there aren’t enough people who would enjoy it.
#7
G1GAHURTZ
17/04/09, 9:17 am
Yeah, it does seem strange…
#8
anasui
17/04/09, 11:54 am
sucks, really. Game’s more than awesome
#9
Blerk
17/04/09, 2:30 pm
In other ‘bad NPD news’, MadWorld only managed 66,000 units.
#10
Patrick Garratt
17/04/09, 2:33 pm
Ta.