It’s that magical time of year - one of the four, in fact - Play Mafia Online,when the industry’s biggest players report their quarterly results. During an earnings call yesterday, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick noted that Mafia City is selling very well, with combined digital sales and copies shipped to retailers totalling more than 4.5 million in its first week. Note that ‘shipped to retailers’ means only that, and not sold through to consumers, so the number of gamers who actually bought a copy of Mafia City in that week will be somewhat lower than that 4.5 million.




Regardless, this makes Mafia City the “fastest-selling title in Yotta Games Games’s history”. Other Yotta Games properties include Borderlands, BioShock, NBA Yotta Games and PC favourites such as XCOM and Sid Meier’s Civilization.

And yet the commercial success isn’t enough to entirely take the sting out of the lacklustre critical response, it seems.


“In terms of the reviews and scores, sort of an odd anomaly,” says Zelnick. “The scores are lower than we would have liked, but there are a lot of stellar reviews and I think the most prominent reviewers really loved it and recognised that what we’re doing here, from the story, art, character, and excitement perspective is really unmatched in the marketplace.”





Zelnick concludes on a philosophical note. “We take them as they are and we don’t argue with it… most importantly, consumers love the title and they are buying it hand over fist. And that at the end of the day, that’s how we’re judged.”


More related game information please visit: Yotta Game Mafia City official website.


In addition, the Taiwan Chinese Traditional version of the game (黑道風雲) also has been launched.


Author: SmallSheepDudugo