GTA: Chinatown Wars accounts for 50% of M-rated sales on DS
by JC Fletcher 
on Apr 2nd 2010 11:32AM
Here's how you make
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars sound like a massive sales success: "As of February 2010,
Chinatown Wars' unit sales in the US represented nearly 50 percent of the unit sales of all M-rated DS titles in the history of the platform." That's Take-Two CEO Ben Feder, via
MCV, putting
Chinatown Wars' sales into perspective. That means it met the combined sales of the 6 M-rated games on DS to date, which include
Dementium: The Ward,
Resident Evil: Deadly Silence and
Ultimate Mortal Kombat, and the smaller releases:
Theresia, Touch the Dead and
C.O.R.E.
Despite comparing
GTA's sales to 3 games most people have never heard of, 2 games that most people didn't know were on DS, and
Dementium, Feder kind of admitted that the game's sales weren't where Take-Two wanted them to be, echoing
Nintendo's statement last December. What's to blame? Piracy, of course. "Piracy is a real and present danger for our industry and must be addressed, especially in the handheld market," he said. "The commercial performance of
Chinatown Wars has certainly suffered at the hands of piracy."
