VGChartz only has this at 620,000 after 4 months on the market. GTA games usually have legs, but the weekly sales data they have posted have dwindled. I'd be more likely short than long this stock at this point. And as you mentioned, a PSP version is coming out. I think the GTA market is more likely on the PSP than the DS.
Didn't see the number poster here anywhere but this game did 88,704 units for March....Those that are shorted are missing out on a huge gain due to the TSE rules (I know...they are what they are).
I am long on this as well. The game is awesome, one of the highest rated on the DS. It's launching near to when the DSi comes out, established franchise. Addressable install base of over 100m.
It'll have good legs I think but I'm not sure how well it'll do first month, so I'm keeping the big money back to see if the price goes down to bargain levels after March NPD
I'm long a little (I can afford to buy much of anything it seems) given the sales of GTA on PSP with a much smaller install base.
I guess my theory would be that if you take the adults and kids out of the mix on the DS you still have enough late teens/early adults that are in the target market for this game such that the market is bigger than the PSP market.
PSP sales were close to 3 million and over 5 i think for the 2 different PSP games.
Would the downbidder care to share why he downbidded one of my screens for this game? Those screens were posted on here only hours after hitting the Internet. They were not available at the time of the earlier posted screens by Noobie. They are different than Noobie's screens, in that they show dual screen.
Brand new screens just released from Nintendoeverything.com. I posted them up. Visit this link for all of them. They lend even more credibility to the First Details rumor.
@Joe80, Just an FYI for people watching this title, actual information regarding the title will be coming very soon as a magazine or two already have highlighted information as forthcoming in their October issue(s).
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