Fanboys Start Your Engines: GTA IV Sales Data

Guess I get to keep the keys to my house...and all you folks doubted me.

Hark

Amazing, beat Halo 3 sales on each individual platform and beat its own sales record for GTA:SA, Most expensive game ever made ($100,000,000) so broke a few records and on top of that will make a s**t load of cash!

now will EA be willing to spend $100,000,000 and allow 2 -3 years of development or is this the last GTA worth buying?

I think 360 will always edge PS3 out, just because of achievements and Live, when it comes to multiformat games. Works for me and others too.

Very true, I bought it on 360 for those exact reasons. Alot of friends have 360s compared my PSN friends list, plus I still aint even bought a single game for my PS3 yet.

Hark

I too bought because all mates have 360 and achievements (also DLC) but what surprised me is 80% of my freinds are still on Halo3 and not many actually have GTA4 (got about 20 friends on live) but they all said they would be getting within next couple of weeks so these sales could continue for a while yet.

Thats funny cause me my friends kinda ditched playing Halo 3 online within its month of release and jumped back onto Gears.

We've all got GTA now but we're all busy playing the single player, so I dunno much about the online exp just yet.

Hark

If EA are still willing to spend $100,000,000 this will be the last GTA worth owning.

Not sure who really doubted that the 360 version would sell more than the PS3 version initially. I can understand GTA4 would/will sell more PS3s than 360s (I have no data to go by but this morning I saw a total about about 10 traded in second hand 360s for sale in the GameStation shop window - coincidence?), but the simple fact is more people own a 360 and as half of it is multiplayer and thus a social experience, you're going to get it on the console your friends have too.

Will be interesting to see the PS3/360 console sales on the back of the GTA4 launch.

Wow.

I have to eat my hat now.

I said GTA4 could never beat Halo 3's one day sales figures. I knew once the hype ramped up in the 2 weeks before it was going to be close but damn.

And beating Halo3 on PS3 alone...

im actually surprised the percentage wasnt more swayed in favour of the 360, yay ps3. you can do it, you lil tike ya.

You do the math there meAnthony? The 360 sold 20% more than the PS3. 69,000 more copies sold on the first day it was on sale alone. That is over $4 million more in sales for the 360 than the PS3 in one frickin day!

They say the GTA4 will sell around 9million copies between the 2 consoles minimally. If the 360 sells 20% more overall which is basically what it does with every other cross platform game.....that is 1.8 million more GTA units sold on the 360 than the PS3 or even more mind blowing.....$108 million more in sales on the 360 than the PS3.

And you wonder why all the developers want to concentrate on the 360 as their primary development platform? Just the extra 20% in revenue on the 360 alone probably paid for the entire games development.

Is it really fair to even say there is a battle over which console dominated this generation of gaming? Those numbers seem to scream that the winner is and has always been the 360 since the day it came out.

How many more 360's are out there? Let's see the figures for sales against installed userbase. Then do a ratio for the length of time each console has been on sale.



The 360's been the winner since the day it came out.. oooookay. How's that HD-DVD battle going, has Toshiba won yet?

As with the above, give it a year, then see how many sales were on each system. People will buy a PS3 for GTA IV alone. If they haven't bought a 360 already, they're unlikely to now.

The sales of GTA were against installed user base, no one bought one for an unsold console?, regardless of how many install 360`s there are it still sold more on 360, you can’t bash the 360 because it was released almost a year earlier? that like saying well horse 1 didn’t win the race because it set off 10 mins after horse 2 so its not a valid or fair race, they both had the opportunity to launch when they did, Sony choose to wait until Blu Ray and the Cell were ready MS decided to be first to market and its paid off For MS.







The 360 in HD gaming is the current winner and has been since release and even if it doesn’t win total sales at the end of the day it still will have won as it achieved what it set out to do and that was place its position in the console race as a contender, which it now is with the fact games division is making profit only strengthens itself in the gaming world, and by mentioning HD DVD is a very cheap Fan boy Dig, MS isn’t Toshiba nor is it in any competition to compete with HD media or ever was, it just gave a current solution at the time.

woah, i didnt realise i was being scrutinised.

firstly, i was just going off the 55% for the 360, which was said in the article.

secondly, i didnt do any math(s) i just said, that i thought the 360 would have a higher percentage, no numbers were mentioned.

and thirdly, its MRanthony, not MEanthony, meanthony doesnt even make any sense :-p

Mean Thony?

i am only messing about you know. people dont need to beat their chests at me. i dont care what sony and microsoft do, good for them, all making money like gooduns