Harvey Norman is offering the Xbox 360 Elite (available for pick-up on purchase) with GTAIV (available for pick up on the 29th of April) for $698, which is $1 less than the recommended retail price of the only PS3 model available in Australia, the 40gb.
A poster on their forums provided the list and so these descriptions and point values should be taken with a grain of salt. Whatever the case may be, the achievements are spread rather wide and cover everything from mini-games and story progress to more arcade-esque survival challenges. As the release date of April 29th approaches, the hype for this thing just continues to grow and grow, and from a glance at the achievements it looks like this could actually live up it's hype.
VGB reports that Jeronimo Barrera, a senior developer at Rockstar, says it takes testers playing 4 hours a day “a good 2 weeks to get through the whole single-player game.” That means if they are playing a full week that’s about 56 hours total.
@sagexsdx, Either way, Pachter's estimate are WW, which probably mean 1:1 ratio in Europe, and 3:1 in US. I have no idea how sales in Japan will be. I would have said 1:2 (in favor of PS3), but I am not sure about it anymore (especially after the latest M-create #).
Wedbush Morgan Securites analyst Michael Pachter has stated that the Xbox version of Grand Theft Auto will sell double the amount of units in its first fiscal year.
Going live on April 15th (plenty of time before GTAIV's release), the Social Club will be a website for GTAIV gamers to analyze, keep track and compare their stats and accomplishments with other Liberty City residents. Xbox Live subscribers will be able to register their gamertags at the Social Club and be able to instantly compare their multiplayer stats with gamers from around the globe.
The soundtrack has to be one of the best parts of the Grand Theft Auto experience. Now, you'll be able to take those tracks with you back into the real world thanks to a cool new service that will let you mark tracks for download in game. It works like this: You hear a song you like, you'll call an in-game service called "ZiT" on your mobile phone to mark it. You'll get a text message with the song and artist name and be able to download the song from Amazon's music site for $0.89 to $0.99.
1
I hope Harvey Norman stock up on their X360 Elite starting now. I can feel big wave of potential buyers converging at the shops.