GameStop has revealed their first-week sales numbers for Grand Theft Auto IV exclusively to Level Up, and they're certainly not too surprising. According to the specialty retail giant, roughly 64 percent of the copies sold were on the Xbox 360, with the other 36 percent (obviously) for the PlayStation 3.
Microsoft FTW? According to Level Up's number-crunching, an Xbox 360 victory is not quite so clear. Comparing the NPD group numbers that indicate a 9.9 million-user Xbox 360 install base versus 4.1 million PlayStation 3s (roughly 70/30), the Xbox 360 version actually "underperformed."
So ... Sony FTW? As someone who just likes to play games, do you care about these numbers and how they might have an impact on the industry? Or are you too busy playing GTA IV -- whether you're in that 64 percent or 36 percent -- to care?
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4:49 PM on 05.12.2008
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YOU ARE RACIST AND DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT GAMES.
Oh, and the usage of the word titties was positively mortifying to play when I had GTAIV on rental.
As long as there are an equal amount of teeties in there, it's all good. I dun want no 0.333333 teeties!!
mgs4, and little big planet will sell ps3s like crazy.
Who on earth would buy something knowing that you have a 3 in 5 chance of having it break?
Rockstar North wins!
Sales are impressive on both sides.
Anyway, what I'd be really interested in (actually, no, I wouldn't...but whatever) is sales figures for the various GTA bundles for the X360 and PS3. But those are a secret, I guess. BTW This MGS logic doesn't quite add up, actually. From all I've gathered, and I wouldn't touch an MGS title with a ten foot pole, is that MGS4 is a game that you either love or you don't. And if you fall into the former category, you're not likely to play anything else for, well, ever. So how would that boost GTA sales on the PS3? Just a stretch maybe, but this is the internets and I can predict whatever I want.
Gamers are enjoying Grand Theft Auto, boom, done.
XBOX VERSION WILL SELL 100 MILLION COPIES AS XBOX 1080 COMES OUT AND BACK COMPAT VERSIONS WILL BECOME A CULT HIT ON MARCH 31 2010.
WII VERSION WILL SELL 100 MILLION COPIES.
GOZER THE GOZARIAN WILL BECOME PRESIDENT ON DECEMBER 15 2010.
For example, down here in Mexico, the game was available in-stores on the US release date, however PS3 copies took over a week or more to arrive.
I know 2 people, and both own both an X360 and PS3, and as you guessed, they got the X360 version instead.
Then we have the obvious reason: Xbox live.
But the thing is this game was branded as a "Sony game" and people saying it wouldn't do well on the 360. Well it is. Cased closed.
Just more fuel for the fanboys so they can whip it out and try to prove whose is bigger while the rest of us laugh at them as we actually, you know, enjoy our games.
And off course, lots of GTA3-fans prolly bought a PS3 the moment it came out...