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GTAIV rakes in $500 million its first week
GTAIV rakes in $500 million its first week
Take 2 - May 7, 2008
Submitted by starship (297) at 4:22AM PST on May 7, 2008
Take 2 said today that GTA IV has surpassed all-time entertainment records for day one and week one sales by dollar value. Released on Tuesday, April 29th, Grand Theft Auto IV, the critically acclaimed video game, has sold through to consumers approximately 6 million units globally with an estimated retail value of more than $500 million in the first week. Grand Theft Auto IV sold approximately 3.6 million units on its opening day with a retail value of approximately $310 million globally.
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1deftangel posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) at 6:44AM PST on June 13, 2008. RE: GTAIV rakes in $500 million its first week@Just_Ben,
You're right, though France isn't that much bigger than Germany, it's a couple of percentage points at best. I'd just woken up when I wrote the comment below :)[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 291 ]bids
1apujanata posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) at 3:59AM PST on June 13, 2008. RE: GTAIV rakes in $500 million its first week@Just_Ben,
To add : Also, Germany is much bigger on PC (known as PC country), so it is not surprising for GTA IV to be outsold by AoC in Germany.[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 14935 ]bids
1Just_Ben posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) at 2:31AM PST on June 13, 2008. RE: GTAIV rakes in $500 million its first weekbids
1deftangel posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) at 12:46AM PST on June 13, 2008. RE: GTAIV rakes in $500 million its first week@Mushashi,
Outside of the US, the next strongest market for GTA:IV is the UK (since in Japan it's not even out). The UK market strongly mirrors the US market (360 2m, PS3 1m in HW, 60:40 split in GTA:IV SW). Canada, another significant market, is likely to be the same. Well over 1m of those 8.5m is going to be the UK alone.
I'm not sure GTA:IV is strong enough in continental Europe (where the PS3 is doing much better than the 360) to make much of an impact on these trends. In Germany, the next biggest European market, it was ousted by Age of Conan after only a week.
I don't disagree with any of your assertions. It probably is around 3m or so, it will sell for a long time. Just not to 7m.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 291 ]bids
1apujanata posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) at 6:45PM PST on June 12, 2008. RE: GTAIV rakes in $500 million its first week@Mushashi,
How about the factor of PS3 H/W trailing PS2 H/W and PSP H/W, if you lined up their "since launch" figure ?
Do you think this factor will decrease the price ?[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 14935 ]bids
1Mushashi posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) at 4:20PM PST on June 12, 2008. RE: GTAIV rakes in $500 million its first week@deftangel,
Global sales for PS3 version are most probably over 2x US total, we know that this game has sold over 8.5 million copies worldwide and 4.2 million copies in US, we also know X360 is strongest in US, I assume similar sales levels in rest of world between PS3 and X360, so I am estimating PS3 version at around 3.5 million copies sold within first 5 weeks.
I think with stable sales of PS3 in Europe and NA, this game will continue to sell for a long time, previous GTA games are still selling many years after release on PS2 and PSP.[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 5 ]bids
1deftangel posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) at 3:52PM PST on June 12, 2008. RE: GTAIV rakes in $500 million its first weekbids
2Laoldar posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) at 10:13AM PST on May 7, 2008. RE: GTAIV rakes in $500 million its first week@Just_Ben,
If the US prediction is 500,000 units off (as you suggest in your last line), that's still only about 17% off. Also, none of those numbers are "official", in the sense that later NPD numbers could change either way.
Without knowing the worldwide or per console distribution, it's impossible to guess how close it is, but it's nice to see that it should at least be fairly close.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 182 ]bids
1Just_Ben posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) at 7:28AM PST on May 7, 2008. RE: GTAIV rakes in $500 million its first week@Laoldar,
Really? I would guess that is a little bit too high. After all that game is also sold in Europe, and sold very very well, not just in the uk. If the Uk had 1 Million, the rest of Europe had at least another one. Normaly Uk is about 30-40% of Europe. So I would guess 2.5 Million for Europe is a good guess, which leaves 3.5 Million to Americas or 3-3.2 Million for the US.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 112 ]bids
1Mushashi posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) at 7:06AM PST on May 7, 2008. RE: GTAIV rakes in $500 million its first weekbids
1Laoldar posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) at 6:47AM PST on May 7, 2008. RE: GTAIV rakes in $500 million its first weekThis article says that GTA4 sold 6 million units globally in its first week.
Combined, the Sim Exchange stocks are predicting 3.7 million sold in the United States alone in 5 days.
If these numbers hold up, the predictions here look surprisingly accurate.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 182 ]bids
1Just_Ben posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) at 5:22AM PST on May 7, 2008. RE: GTAIV rakes in $500 million its first week@starship,
Well you can say about VGC what you want, but they seem to be spot on this time around, at least on copies sold:
http://www.vgchartz.com/news/news.php?id=1126[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 112 ]bids
36starship posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) at 4:22AM PST on May 7, 2008. Article: GTAIV rakes in $500 million its first weekTake 2 said today that GTA IV has surpassed all-time entertainment records for day one and week one sales by dollar value. Released on Tuesday, April 29th, Grand Theft Auto IV, the critically acclaimed video game, has sold through to consumers approximately 6 million units globally with an estimated retail value of more than $500 million in the first week. Grand Theft Auto IV sold approximately 3.6 million units on its opening day with a retail value of approximately $310 million globally.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 297 ]
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UK sales of this game are estimated to be around 1.5 million, so I will put 2 million for all countries where X360 is likely to lead. Using 60:40 sales ratio, this gives 800K sales for PS3 version.
US - 4.2 million
Other pro-X360 - 2 million
Rest - 2.3 million
I assume PS3 is equal or better in sales in Rest of world so about 1.2 million sales for PS3. Which is roughly my guess of 3.5 million sold sofar.
If you do not believe that PS3 version can reach current projected GLS, then you should also be negative on X360 version GLS as it also will have to approximately double current sales total to reach projected GLS.
I believe the current GLS is within possible sales total for this game. It still has 3 positive factors:
1. official bundled with hardware in PAL countries.
2. still has year-end gift season to come.
3. still has Greatest Hits release to come.
The previous GTA games have shown long term sales also. The Japanese release should add some more sales for PS3 version compared to X360 version.