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Turns out the Nintendo DS isn’t the place to sell Mature titles. Surely not?

April 20, 2009 | Nicholas Lovell

The latest NPD data shows disappointing data for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on Nintendo DS.

It sold a “pathetic” 89,000 and “bombed”, according to Variety.

Game	Platform	US Installed	Unit	Penetration
		base (m)*	sales**	rate (%)
GTA: Chinatown Wars	Nintendo DS	26.3	89,000	0.3%
Grand Theft Auto IV	Xbox360/PS3	14.4	2,850,000	19.8%
GTA IV: The Lost and Damned	Xbox360 DLC	13.5	1,000,000	7.4%
GTA: Vice City Stories	PSP	n/a	108,000	-
GTA: Liberty City Stories	PSP	n/a	158,000	-
* at time of release
** at launch
*Source: Variety*

The main conclusion: that the DS is not an ideal platform for mature content.

Was this not a generally known fact?

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Tagged in: ds, gta chinatown wars, starred, wii

http://www.nicholaslovell.com Nicholas Lovell

GamaSutra has some follow-up:

Nintendo of America VP of licensing Steve Singer told consumer website MTV Multiplayer that Chinatown Wars is “in line with AAA titles that have come to our platform like Spore or Lego Star Wars.”

“Those games went on to have very different life-to-date sales numbers,” Singer says — for example, Call of Duty 4 on DS recorded sales of only 36,000 units in its first month, but went on to sell more than half a million copies.

Full story: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=23271

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