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GTA:IV just under 2m in the US on PS3
GTA:IV just under 2m in the US on PS3
VG247 - April 14, 2009
Submitted by deftangel (291) at 2:06PM PST on April 14, 2009
Plenty of coverage from Mr.Dille's forthcoming interview today but we did get US LTD's for GTA:IV today. The PS3 sku is at 1.96m vs 3.66m on the 360. Take 2's most recent financials had GTA:IV at between 10-11m sold/shipped so the US would represent around 50% of sales.
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1deftangel posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) at 6:49AM PST on June 26, 2009. RE: GTA:IV just under 2m in the US on PS3@deftangel,
Whoops forgot the link
http://www.thesimexchange.com/news-item.php?id=26737[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 291 ]bids
1deftangel posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) at 6:49AM PST on June 26, 2009. RE: GTA:IV just under 2m in the US on PS3@deftangel,
More talking to myself but this link indicates that 1.7m copies of GTA:IV PS3 were "sold" not "bundled" in the US as of this April.
That means they sold just shy of 300k bundles in my book using the figures below.
Still massively over-valued but I know already it won't change.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 291 ]bids
1deftangel posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) at 1:22AM PST on April 15, 2009. RE: GTA:IV just under 2m in the US on PS3@Mushashi,
Yes, GTA:IV will continue to sell over the next couple of years on both platforms...no doubt there will be budget editions and the like but this is at nowhere near a significant enough rate to add enough 1.5m units to the PS3 sku.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 291 ]bids
1oznerol posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) at 2:39PM PST on April 14, 2009. RE: GTA:IV just under 2m in the US on PS3@Mushashi,
Re-releases are ways to stimulate sales, but they never are incredibly effective. The market is generally saturated within the first month and sales trail off exponentially after that.
Even with a "Greatest Hits" or a "Special Edition" with new features, sales will get propped up, but not enough to be noteworthy.
The best recent example of this is Oblivion.
Also, ignore what I say if the title is made by Nintendo or, in a much lesser way, Blizzard.[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 1 ]bids
1Mushashi posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) at 2:26PM PST on April 14, 2009. RE: GTA:IV just under 2m in the US on PS3@deftangel,
Have you included Greatest Hits version in your projection?
Many games on PC which are long sellers have multiple rereleases, including games from Blizzard and Valve. Diablo and Half-Life did not sell their LTD only from the initial release version.[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 5 ]bids
1deftangel posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) at 2:09PM PST on April 14, 2009. RE: GTA:IV just under 2m in the US on PS3@deftangel,
Interesting data point this which shows some conjecture we had earlier in the game thread wasn't that far off the mark. VGChartz were over-estimating both SKUs. The PS3 version should perform better relative to the 360 in Europe but even the most optimistic scenario would render the PS3 version at under 5m LTD in my opinion.
I don't see it selling another millon and a half copies over the next couple of years. I've cashed out a fair bit of my short but profit here, I'd suggest, for others.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 291 ]bids
13deftangel posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) at 2:06PM PST on April 14, 2009. Article: GTA:IV just under 2m in the US on PS3Plenty of coverage from Mr.Dille's forthcoming interview today but we did get US LTD's for GTA:IV today. The PS3 sku is at 1.96m vs 3.66m on the 360. Take 2's most recent financials had GTA:IV at between 10-11m sold/shipped so the US would represent around 50% of sales.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 291 ]
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GTA IV on PS3 was bundled with something?