Both LucasArts and the Entertainment Software Association confirmed via statements made Friday that the publisher has opted to not renew its membership with the ESA, but will still be participating in E3.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday its Xbox 360 game machine beat Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii and Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 to reach 10 million units in U.S. sales.
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"The game is attaching well to new consoles, roughly 40 per cent of 360s going out the door had a copy of GTA IV going with them," said a spokesperson on the Major Nelson podcast. Chart Track data in the UK shows that 514,000 Xbox 360 copies of Grand Theft Auto IV were sold in its first week, while 413,000 copies sold were of the PlayStation 3 SKU.
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Texas-based independent developer id Software has announced that it is currently developing the fourth game in the long-running Doom franchise, a series notable for helping define the first-person shooter genre. Doom 4 will be developed in-house at id. The company has not released an internally-developed game since 2004's Doom 3; it is currently also working on the Mad Max-esque post-apocalyptic shooter Rage. No platforms were announced.
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"I think PS3 'wins' this battle," Pachter told Reuters. He said that if sales of Take-Two’s GTA IV come in at the high end of the 9-12.5 million unit estimates during 2008, the game will directly drive sales of two million additional PS3s this year, compared to one million Xbox 360s.
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In this month's column, we'll break down the figures and answer the following questions: How much have game prices risen in the past two years? How much did those price increases contribute to the nearly $1 billion in software sales in March 2008? Sony has sold over 800,000 PS3 systems in the U.S. this year. How long did it take Sony to sell that many in 2007? And how soon could the American Wii installed base catch up with the Xbox 360?
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David Jones, creator of iconic titles like Lemmings, GTA and Crackdown, has told GI.biz that the cost of creating high quality original games with strong, new IP has skyrocketed to the point where he'd find it hard to spend less than $50 mln on a title. "Unfortunately these days it does take that amount. Crackdown wasn't that long ago and our development budget was something like $50 mln, and even that to me now, I don't know if I could do anything for much less than that."
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MS claimed to have more than doubled 360’s EU sales due to recent price cut, but it failed to surpass PS3. UK console sales monitor Chart Track confirmed that the past 15 weeks the PS3 has largely kept ahead of the Xbox 360. However, a spokesman admitted that the two machines' units have been "extremely close" in some weeks. The Wii would still be ahead of PS3 and Xbox 360 if those two machines' UK sales were combined.
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US VP Christian Svensson says he 'fully expects' firm start making WiiWare titles soon as well Capcom's US VP Christian Scensson has said 'it's just sort of a given' that the Japanese firm will acquire a studio in the West in the next two years.
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I wanted to inform everyone who was not in the edit meeting that Shoe will be leaving us as April 25th. Sam Kennedy will become Editorial and Site Director moving forward. Though the timing is less than ideal, following the closure of GFW, the fact is that like Mark Macdonald before him, Shoe feels it's time to take a break from work and that after almost 12 years at Ziff (with a year off on Gamers.com) it's time for change in his life.
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