Rockstar: thieving automobile V Was 2013′s popular game.

Rockstar: thieving automobile V Was 2013′s popular game

But that cannot be right, as a result of consoles area unit dead.
I’m pretty positive there’s a blunder here. Rockstar’s claiming thieving automobile V – my review is here — was the popular game of 2013, however that can’t be right, as a result of consoles area unit dead: subverted by the smartphone-tablet wave.

I mean, the sandbox crime-spree for PlayStation three and Xbox 360 didn’t launch till Sept 2013, thus we’re talking simply three-and-a-half months to rack up thirty two.5 million copies sold . That’s not possible, right? I mean positive, we tend to all knew it’d break launch sales records, and for certain, it cleared over $1 billion in 3 days (the next-biggest merchandiser, revenue-wise, is decision of Duty: Black Roman deity a pair of, that took over time period to hit that figure), claiming the sales record in this timeframe for any kind of amusement, game or otherwise.

But clinching the holy “best-selling game of 2013″ cup, each by revenue and units sold? Wasn’t that Candy Crush Saga? perhaps Temple Run 2? No? Not Minecraft: paperback book or Angry Birds: Star Wars?

What’s happening here? Did we tend to sideslip in space-time? is that this some goofy alter-verse wherever prognosticators WHO keep predicting console atrophy area unit wildly off? Analysts cut from identical textile as those currently scolding Nintendo for its stubborn insistence on treating games as holistic experiences, design-wise?

In Rockstar’s just-released third quarter money report, the corporate sources its “best-selling game of 2013″ claim to retail sales hunter NPD. I haven’t double-checked that claim with NPD, thus WHO is aware of — perhaps Rockstar’s prevarication. If it is aware of what’s sensible for it — since we tend to all understand no one’s shopping for the PlayStation four or Xbox One — it’ll own up to any funny business, then get busy acting on its initial mobile Candy Crush clone.