Considering the ESRB lists all of 10 Nintendo DS titles rated M, this isn’t surprising. Still, the publisher of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars bragged the game accounts for more than half of M-rated game sales on that platform.
Did you know Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars was released on the iPhone and iPod Touch earlier this week? Well, it was! And here’s the official launch trailer to prove it.
As is the way with most iPhone releases, Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has been set loose upon the App Store with absolutely zero warning or pre-emptive fanfare.
Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of sale and marketing, confessed to being frustrated by the sales numbers behind Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and suggested Rockstar hasn’t learned something Nintendo already knows about marketing.
The GTA games on PSP did a great job of cramming lots of stuff onto a UMD. Yet as big an achievement as that was, Rockstar think they can do better.
The folks over at 1up spoke with Gordon Hall of Rockstar Leeds, the developer behind Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the DS.