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more about #chinatownwars Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians.: It sold really poorly on PSP also, so Cammie's not too far off of the mark. Of course cores will ignore this, because they don't like Cammie when thei... more » electroshockwave: Obviously Cammie works for NOA and I'm from the UK so my experience may not really be relevant but I saw more ads on TV for Chinatown Wars than just a... more » Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.: And people are once again somehow trying to blame it on Nintendo, when third party developers have proven time and time again that it's their own damn... more » belsunce: I don't want to sound insensitive - especially in this case (CTW was a great game IMHO) - but I'm not exactly crying a river for either Nintendo or Ro... more » pashaveliki: Truth be told, Cammie has a point. The DS is king of the evergreen title, and with that you have to count on new consumers coming in all the time. R... more » legendnthemaking: Hey Nintendo, You made the choice to lie in bed with your new, important fanbase which consists of Pokemon, kids and people who don't give a shit abo... more » JonasJuice: At least there aren't a bunch of idiots saying it'll do better on the PSP. Besides, it'll probably be over a million copies sold after the holidays. ... more » jellotek: ...Well, whose fault is that? Publishers handle marketing and advertising, no? Even if it is a GTA game, it needs some media to boost its sales. Nint... more » madbassman39: yea, rockstar doesn't know how to market games... even though every major gta that has came out has had phenomenal sales aside from this one. I blame ... more » Realmjumper: Here's how you start fighting the flash cards, you make it download only and sell the codes at retailers. That will slow down and eliminate the R4 com... more » gold163 (° д° ): I blame piracy. Piracy, I say! Seriously, more than 3/4 the people I know who own DSes (DS'? DS's?) have some sort of flash cart, even the people who... more » bakura: Let's just play some GTA2 everyone! more » Sunrise_Poultry: I don't find it to be a marketing mistake...there was just no demand for a portable GTA anymore. I would have loved to see one around the time between... more » gguru1001: Sadly, the problem is that lots of the same gamers (who are in fact casual and not "hardcore" thank you very much) who make the console GTAs bestselle... more » CockroachMan: The problem with the game is not the marketing, and neither the platform. The PSP version is selling even worse. The problem is that GTA became a big... more » DaveKap: It was an unfun game. You can't fix an unfun game with better marketing. You can't tout the game as being a "core" title either. It's like every se... more » RockyRan: The game was featured at Nintendo's E3 conference and touted as one of the two hardcore games coming out that year. Is it REALLY bad marketing? Or i... more » ryancoke: I wonder how it's going to do on PSP more » Demonbird: We had posters and displays for this all over the store prior to launch. more » tomsamson: While her suggestion of supporting games with marketing for a longer while is a good one i´m sure she´d actually have an easier time of listing all ... more » -
#chinatownwars
Nintendo Calls Chinatown Sales 'Frustrating'; Implies Lack of Marketing
Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of sale and marketing, confessed to being frustrated by the sales numbers behind Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and suggested Rockstar hasn't learned something Nintendo already knows about marketing. More » -
#ds
GTA DS Bigger Than GTA PSP, Say Rockstar
The GTA games on PSP did a great job of cramming lots of stuff onto a UMD. Yet as big an achievement as that was, Rockstar think they can do better. More » -
#grandtheftauto
DS Touch Screen 'Used Extensively' In GTA: Chinatown Wars
The folks over at 1up spoke with Gordon Hall of Rockstar Leeds, the developer behind Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the DS. More »
