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By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:45:27 +0000

Yeah, I don’t see piracy being nearly as big a problem on the DS as it is the PSP. I can’t remember hearing Nintendo or any third parties complain about piracy killing sales of their DS games. But there was just a story recently where Sony said the PSP almost went under because third parties were scared off so much by the rampant piracy. I guess that’s why third-party support has been so poor.

So it’s up at 200k+ now, huh? And through the first week of April? Looks like the DSi did give it a little boost.

By: Michael Anderson

Michael Anderson — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:26:57 +0000

Considering they sold 435,000 in the first week alone (including mine!), I’m sure there was a potential DSi pull-in.

As for the piracy thing, that would also be interesting – because while the whole R4 thing is pretty easy, the DS has still managed the best software sales of any console this generation by a fair amount. I would tend to chalk it up that kids are more likely to buy and teens/young adults are more likely to steal.

Looks like based on weekly sales numbers that GTA is over 200,000 based on 1st week or so in April sales.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:50:59 +0000

That’s an excellent point. It’ll be interesting to see if the sales spike up now that the DSi has launched as I’m sure there were a lot of folks that picked the game up with their new DSi, especially those brand new to the platform.

By: LeslieLu

LeslieLu — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:29:31 +0000

Regarding the “low sales”, I heard some hardcore gamers say they were waiting for the DSi to be released before they could buy GTA: CW. But then again it’s so easy to pirate DS games, that they may never buy it when they can just torrent it. Nintendo has GOT to find a way to make it harder to hack DS games if they want to make money. Why buy it when you can get it for free. I totally agree with you guys that the game is really, really awesome though.

And heads up, GameStop’s got a Chinatown Wars contest to win a “mob boss experience” on their site, http://www.gamestopchinatown.com. Airfare for 4 to New York, private limo, hotel, model entourage, VIP room at a club, bodyguard and $5000 in cash.