'M' rated games on the handheld are a risk, says EEDAR's Jesse Divnich, noting that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars only managed of about 200,000 units in the US last month.

The analyst says that top ratings and famous brands don't seem to be enough to drive sales on Nintendo's format, telling us that this game is "an important benchmark for the industry, as it will be the best-performing mature rated title on the DS to date coupled with one of the strongest mature-rated game brands."

Indeed, Divnich says that the "industry may have been over zealous with initial expectations on how GTA: Chinatown Wars would perform based upon the news it had received one of the highest quality scores for a Nintendo DS title."

Source: Gamasutra

By Luke Guttridge

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  1. Johnjack92 7 months ago

    I'm sure it's a great game but im so sure that most of the ds buyers are kids + the ds is aimed for children so lets say the age of 14- is best for DS (have you seen the graphics and capability of the ds it just look Kiddish)