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No sooner are Nintendo boasting 'amazing' figures of 500,000 sales of Super Mario Sunshine in the United Kingdom on launch day, Rockstar were able to announce that they would not be able to meet the demand of 1.7 million copies of Grand Theft Auto Vice City for its launch!
What an embarassment for Nintendo eh? Nintendo's biggest GameCube game to be released is more than tripled in copies sold by a game developed by a team of developers that were little more than nothing five years ago!
Of course there is much to take into consideration. Grand Theft Auto is aimed at the age-group where people love to be in constant money troubles, where being a sheep is at the top of their priorities, and doing something different...well that's unheard of in their vocabularies, whereas Nintendo rely mainly on the sales of games to the parents buying the cute and the cuddily for their 'innocent' little darlings.
Saying that, both games are brilliant! Grand Theft Auto: Vice City beats the Gee Willickers off any other Playstation 2 game, the only one coming close being Grand Theft Auto 3. There's good gameplay, graphics, storyline, and a brilliant lack of linearity that makes this game so open to free play that it will last you longer than the effects of watching too many channel five late night movies!
Super Mario Sunshine works in a different way, offering variety, innocence and a fun 'cleaning is cool' message that the kids will still ignore. Platform games have always been fun, except for Mario's accident based on Japanese trash Doki Doki Panic, which for some tragic reason was brought back to life on the Game Boy Advance last year. They're usually fun, challenging, and very stimulating for the imgination, and leave you wanting more.
Nintendo could see this as an embarrassment, but considering their handheld, the Game Boy Advance, is still doing more than enough sales to keep Nintendo the best performing videogames developer at present, they don't have much to worry about. What is a shame is that people think of Rockstar as being loyal to Sony by releasing GTA: Vice City on just their console, but in reality, they're only doing it because they were paid more by Sony. They still released Grand Theft Auto 1, 2, 3 and London on the PC, and have released Smuggler's Run multi-format. As far as Rockstar are concerned, they're still competing with Sony. What is also a shame is that because of poor sales, in comparison to Sony's Playstation 2 anyway, games such as Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem and the likes, are under-rated or not rated at all because only a minority play them.
At the end of the day, all Nintendo can do is smile, and take it good heartedly. Mario's still sold very well, even if Vice City has done a hell of a lot better. Rockstar can bask in their glory as the wage packets are five times thicker this month, and Sony can be happy that their Playstation 2 is still top for now. We're still to see anything really big, except their console, from Microsoft as of late though.
What an embarassment for Nintendo eh? Nintendo's biggest GameCube game to be released is more than tripled in copies sold by a game developed by a team of developers that were little more than nothing five years ago!
Of course there is much to take into consideration. Grand Theft Auto is aimed at the age-group where people love to be in constant money troubles, where being a sheep is at the top of their priorities, and doing something different...well that's unheard of in their vocabularies, whereas Nintendo rely mainly on the sales of games to the parents buying the cute and the cuddily for their 'innocent'
Saying that, both games are brilliant! Grand Theft Auto: Vice City beats the Gee Willickers off any other Playstation 2 game, the only one coming close being Grand Theft Auto 3. There's good gameplay, graphics, storyline, and a brilliant lack of linearity that makes this game so open to free play that it will last you longer than the effects of watching too many channel five late night movies!
Super Mario Sunshine works in a different way, offering variety, innocence and a fun 'cleaning is cool' message that the kids will still ignore. Platform games have always been fun, except for Mario's accident based on Japanese trash Doki Doki Panic, which for some tragic reason was brought back to life on the Game Boy Advance last year. They're usually fun, challenging, and very stimulating for the imgination, and leave you wanting more.
Nintendo could see this as an embarrassment, but considering their handheld, the Game Boy Advance, is still doing more than enough sales to keep Nintendo the best performing videogames developer at present, they don't have much to worry about. What is a shame is that people think of Rockstar as being loyal to Sony by releasing GTA: Vice City on just their console, but in reality, they're only doing it because they were paid more by Sony. They still released Grand Theft Auto 1, 2, 3 and London on the PC, and have released Smuggler's Run multi-format. As far as Rockstar are concerned, they're still competing with Sony. What is also a shame is that because of poor sales, in comparison to Sony's Playstation 2 anyway, games such as Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem and the likes, are under-rated or not rated at all because only a minority play them.
At the end of the day, all Nintendo can do is smile, and take it good heartedly. Mario's still sold very well, even if Vice City has done a hell of a lot better. Rockstar can bask in their glory as the wage packets are five times thicker this month, and Sony can be happy that their Playstation 2 is still top for now. We're still to see anything really big, except their console, from Microsoft as of late though.
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Put it in the VC chat room...
A lot of the best games don't get the recognition and sales they deserve. Could that be saying something about Vice City?
It's true GTA has wiped the floor with Mario's sales figures, but when you consider the amount of Gamecubes sold and the amount of PS2s sold, Mario has still done amazingly well.
who cares about u song branders calling mario sunshine 'childish' when GTA is childish in its own way.
WHO Cares about sales anyway? GTA was overhyped i tell ya its not even the best game of the year IMO.
WHO Cares about sales anyway? GTA was overhyped i tell ya its not even the best game of the year IMO.
They didn't really make a mockery of Nintendo.
They just made a good game.
They just made a good game.
No sooner are Nintendo boasting 'amazing' figures of 500,000 sales of Super Mario Sunshine in the United Kingdom on launch day, Rockstar were able to announce that they would not be able to meet the demand of 1.7 million copies of Grand Theft Auto Vice City for its launch!
What an embarassment for Nintendo eh? Nintendo's biggest GameCube game to be released is more than tripled in copies sold by a game developed by a team of developers that were little more than nothing five years ago!
Of course there is much to take into consideration. Grand Theft Auto is aimed at the age-group where people love to be in constant money troubles, where being a sheep is at the top of their priorities, and doing something different...well that's unheard of in their vocabularies, whereas Nintendo rely mainly on the sales of games to the parents buying the cute and the cuddily for their 'innocent' little darlings.
Saying that, both games are brilliant! Grand Theft Auto: Vice City beats the Gee Willickers off any other Playstation 2 game, the only one coming close being Grand Theft Auto 3. There's good gameplay, graphics, storyline, and a brilliant lack of linearity that makes this game so open to free play that it will last you longer than the effects of watching too many channel five late night movies!
Super Mario Sunshine works in a different way, offering variety, innocence and a fun 'cleaning is cool' message that the kids will still ignore. Platform games have always been fun, except for Mario's accident based on Japanese trash Doki Doki Panic, which for some tragic reason was brought back to life on the Game Boy Advance last year. They're usually fun, challenging, and very stimulating for the imgination, and leave you wanting more.
Nintendo could see this as an embarrassment, but considering their handheld, the Game Boy Advance, is still doing more than enough sales to keep Nintendo the best performing videogames developer at present, they don't have much to worry about. What is a shame is that people think of Rockstar as being loyal to Sony by releasing GTA: Vice City on just their console, but in reality, they're only doing it because they were paid more by Sony. They still released Grand Theft Auto 1, 2, 3 and London on the PC, and have released Smuggler's Run multi-format. As far as Rockstar are concerned, they're still competing with Sony. What is also a shame is that because of poor sales, in comparison to Sony's Playstation 2 anyway, games such as Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem and the likes, are under-rated or not rated at all because only a minority play them.
At the end of the day, all Nintendo can do is smile, and take it good heartedly. Mario's still sold very well, even if Vice City has done a hell of a lot better. Rockstar can bask in their glory as the wage packets are five times thicker this month, and Sony can be happy that their Playstation 2 is still top for now. We're still to see anything really big, except their console, from Microsoft as of late though.
What an embarassment for Nintendo eh? Nintendo's biggest GameCube game to be released is more than tripled in copies sold by a game developed by a team of developers that were little more than nothing five years ago!
Of course there is much to take into consideration. Grand Theft Auto is aimed at the age-group where people love to be in constant money troubles, where being a sheep is at the top of their priorities, and doing something different...well that's unheard of in their vocabularies, whereas Nintendo rely mainly on the sales of games to the parents buying the cute and the cuddily for their 'innocent'
Saying that, both games are brilliant! Grand Theft Auto: Vice City beats the Gee Willickers off any other Playstation 2 game, the only one coming close being Grand Theft Auto 3. There's good gameplay, graphics, storyline, and a brilliant lack of linearity that makes this game so open to free play that it will last you longer than the effects of watching too many channel five late night movies!
Super Mario Sunshine works in a different way, offering variety, innocence and a fun 'cleaning is cool' message that the kids will still ignore. Platform games have always been fun, except for Mario's accident based on Japanese trash Doki Doki Panic, which for some tragic reason was brought back to life on the Game Boy Advance last year. They're usually fun, challenging, and very stimulating for the imgination, and leave you wanting more.
Nintendo could see this as an embarrassment, but considering their handheld, the Game Boy Advance, is still doing more than enough sales to keep Nintendo the best performing videogames developer at present, they don't have much to worry about. What is a shame is that people think of Rockstar as being loyal to Sony by releasing GTA: Vice City on just their console, but in reality, they're only doing it because they were paid more by Sony. They still released Grand Theft Auto 1, 2, 3 and London on the PC, and have released Smuggler's Run multi-format. As far as Rockstar are concerned, they're still competing with Sony. What is also a shame is that because of poor sales, in comparison to Sony's Playstation 2 anyway, games such as Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem and the likes, are under-rated or not rated at all because only a minority play them.
At the end of the day, all Nintendo can do is smile, and take it good heartedly. Mario's still sold very well, even if Vice City has done a hell of a lot better. Rockstar can bask in their glory as the wage packets are five times thicker this month, and Sony can be happy that their Playstation 2 is still top for now. We're still to see anything really big, except their console, from Microsoft as of late though.
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