... I think we all expected this given the pretty awful sales of the DS version of Chinatown Wars.

http://www.pushsquare.com/3609/grand-theft-auto-chinatown-wars-confirmed-for-the-psp-this-autumn/

Rockstar Games have announced today that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be released for the PSP this Autumn. The game will be available via UMD and via Playstation Network.

“We’re proud to extend this truly unique handheld Grand Theft Auto experience to PSP and offer a downloadable version of Chinatown Wars for PSPgo,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games.

“Rockstar Leeds has shown incredible talent in creating games that raise the bar in terms of depth and innovation on portables, and with Chinatown Wars we have a rich, fast-paced, and incredibly addictive entry into the series.”

" ... I think we all expected this given the pretty awful sales of the DS version of Chinatown Wars.

http://www.pushsquare.com/3609/grand-theft-auto-chinatown-wars-confirmed-for-the-psp-this-autumn/

Rockstar Games have announced today that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be released for the PSP this Autumn. The game will be available via UMD and via Playstation Network.

“We’re proud to extend this truly unique handheld Grand Theft Auto experience to PSP and offer a downloadable version of Chinatown Wars for PSPgo,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games.

“Rockstar Leeds has shown incredible talent in creating games that raise the bar in terms of depth and innovation on portables, and with Chinatown Wars we have a rich, fast-paced, and incredibly addictive entry into the series.”

The game will be a loving port of the DS release, featuring upscaled widescreen graphics, enhanced lighting and animation, plus all-new story missions. "

" ... I think we all expected this given the pretty awful sales of the DS version of Chinatown Wars."

The early sales were particularly awful considering it was a Grand Theft Auto game, on the platform with the highest install base with a slew of extremely positive reviews. I'll let you have the franchise loyalty and competing games argument but still - Rockstar had to have been disappointed.

It makes sense to port it in my opinion. It'll be interesting to see how they tweak it. I'm sure we'll get some screenshots or a trailer soon.

Somehow I knew this would happen, and its great news for me as a PSP owner, I dont have a DS though

I don't think this will work out well, but that's because I really liked all the touch-screen aspect of CW...I'd much rather see a new, original GTA title for the PSP, rather than a port of the DS game just because it didn't meet their sales expectations.

Thank you for letting me have a bone master, it's not like what I said made sense, but you'll let me have it anyway! Also, eh, still talking about "early" days when we're 3 months after the fact and are able to see that its sales have clearly kept up a good pace, enough to believe it will actually end up with rather great numbers, not to mention it's probably already very, very profitable considering the game's nature. Of course it's a good idea to port it, I doubt there's much market overlap with people owning both a DS and a PSP so they can sell it to everyone like this. If PSP owners will be willing to buy a return to the top-down shenanigans remains to be seen though. It's certainly not a guaranteed success, despite franchise loyalty built on the platform, but it's probably more than worth the tiny conversion cost.

" Thank you for letting me have a bone master, it's not like what I said made sense, but you'll let me have it anyway! Also, eh, still talking about "early" days when we're 3 months after the fact and can see the sales have clearly kept up the pace enough to believe it will actually end up with rather good numbers, not to mention it's probably already very, very profitable considering the game's nature. Of course it's a good idea to port it, I doubt there's much market overlap with people owning both a DS and a PSP so they can sell it to everyone like this. "

Yeah I edited my post to add that. It's not a guaranteed runaway success, but it's probably more than worth it.

Smart move on Sony's part. It'll get a lot of people to start downloading games.

" Thank you for letting me have a bone master, it's not like what I said made sense, but you'll let me have it anyway! Also, eh, still talking about "early" days when we're 3 months after the fact and are able to see that its sales have clearly kept up a good pace, enough to believe it will actually end up with rather great numbers, not to mention it's probably already very, very profitable considering the game's nature. Of course it's a good idea to port it, I doubt there's much market overlap with people owning both a DS and a PSP so they can sell it to everyone like this. If PSP owners will be willing to buy a return to the top-down shenanigans remains to be seen though. It's certainly not a guaranteed success, despite franchise loyalty built on the platform, but it's probably more than worth the tiny conversion cost. "

" @Al3xand3r said:

" Thank you for letting me have a bone master, it's not like what I said made sense, but you'll let me have it anyway! Also, eh, still talking about "early" days when we're 3 months after the fact and can see the sales have clearly kept up the pace enough to believe it will actually end up with rather good numbers, not to mention it's probably already very, very profitable considering the game's nature. Of course it's a good idea to port it, I doubt there's much market overlap with people owning both a DS and a PSP so they can sell it to everyone like this. "

How many PSP owners are itching for a 2D GTA, though?I'm just not sure this will boost sales at record rates or anything. "

Um, what? Over half a million (and counting) sales in 3 months for a low budget title is far from awful, considering DS owners aren't in lack of good games, and that there's no franchise loyalty built on the platform as it was the very first GTA for it (and any Nintendo system even).Good news for PSP owners like me, I wonder how the controls will translate though. Oh well, it can't be worse than the others. "

Fuck damnit, new guy stole my post

Well of course piracy played a part. But would the game still have done GTA-type numbers piracy included? I'm not so sure.

Of course, none of this means it'll do better on the PSP by any stretch. Piracy is sadly just a rife on Sony's platform.

I'm curious how Sony are going to calculate sales figures actually when the PSP Go launches. I mean - presumably PSP retail games are going to remain as non-existent on the charts as they are now? Download figures won't count towards charting sales will they? So does that then mean they have to release press releases for games stating the numbers of UMD/downloads? Of course they won't have to, but I assume they will if there's something to brag about.

Going digital changes a lot. I'm still not sure whether Gran Turismo 5 Prologue's 3 million sales include PSN downloads or not.

"Other GTA games on Nintendo systems were Grand Theft Auto on The GameBoy Color in 1999, Grand Theft Auto 2 on the same system in 2000 and Grand Theft Auto Advance on the GameBoy Advance in 2004. "

Why can't developers just make good games for each console? A port is often allot worse and awkward. I want a new classic stylish GTA on the PSP rather then a China Town port.