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Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive VP of sales and marketing has called the performance at retail of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars “frustrating” and implied a continued marketing push was needed to sell the title over a longer period of time.
Speaking to MTV Multiplayer, reported by Kotaku, Dunaway said: “It’s frustrating, quite frankly. Certainly there have been mature titles – Resident Evil, the first Call of Duty – that have sold over a million units, and with something... Read Full Story
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars [Online Game Code] ( Software Download ) By Rockstar Games Buy new : $39.99 First tagged by Kenneth Fegley Customer tags: playstation network , video games , psn Review & Description Following his father’s murder, Huang Lee has a simple mission: deliver an ancient sword to his Uncle Kenny to ensure his family retains control of the Triad gangs of Liberty City. Huang is a spoiled rich kid who expects everything to run smoothly, but his trip does not go exactly... Read Full Story
The poor sales of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on the DS has been well chronicled. In spite of receiving critical acclaim, the title pretty much bombed in its opening month in the United States. Nintendo said that the sales of Chinatown Wars would grow over time, but it doesn’t look like the game has been selling a whole lot more since April. But in a recent interview, Nintendo’s Cammie Dunaway discussed the poor sales of the game and noted that heavier and long-term advertising should... Read Full Story
So it’s been 8 months since "Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars" released on the Nintendo DS, and, despite critical acclaim, the sales still haven’t picked up. MTV multiplayer spoke with Cammie Dunaway, the EVP of sales and marketing for Nintendo of America, about why she thought the game didn’t come close to the numbers you’d expect from a "GTA" title. For her it’s a simple case of marketing, and that not enough long-term marketing support was placed on the title... Read Full Story
Nintendo of America marketing boss Cammie Dunaway has told MTV that Rockstar should continue to push GTA: Chinatown Wars in an effort to get the game in front of “new consumers”.
“We do think that it’ll have a long tail, and we’ve seen that with a lot of titles across all genres on the DS platform, [...] Read Full Story
Cammie Dunaway calls GTA: Chinatown Wars sales frustrating, calls for better marketing.
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Earlier this year Take 2 released Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on the DS to great critical acclaim but lackluster sales. And so GTA comes back to the PSP, its handheld home, in the form of Chinatown Wars PSP – an upscaled port of the DS game. It’s not different enough an experience from the DS one that I can recommend buying it as well as that one, but for those who missed it I can recommend Chinatown Wars on the PSP with the same qualifications as before: this is a morally bankrupt game... Read Full Story
Despite the fact that we had three different Grand Theft Auto adventures this year, and one last year, Take Two has announced that they don’t need to release a Grand Theft Auto title every year in order to be profitable.
Take Two Chairman Strauss Zelnick said the following during a conference call yesterday…
“We don’t feel that [...] Read Full Story
Grand Theft Auto titles do not need to be annualized said Take-Two during its Q4 fiscal call to investors.
According to Take-Two, GTA is a strong enough franchise that it does not need a new release annually, especially with the completion of the GTA IV story through DLC proving to remain profitable.
Guess GTA V will be landing sometime in 2011, then.
The call is ongoing, we’re listening, and will update you if anything interesting happens. Read Full Story
