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Grand Theft Auto IV ships 13 million units Comments by Tom Bramwell

11 March, 2009

But no word on Lost and Damned sales.

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jaluuk
11/03/09 @ 09:01
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And yet no Bafta. Hmmm.

edit: woot first. I can haz job at Eurogamer plz?!
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11/03/09 @ 09:05
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Good job they have Rockstar then!
MBar
11/03/09 @ 09:31
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And yet no Bafta. Hmmm.

The games that won deserved them, unlike this decidely lacklustre sequel. GTA: Vice City is still the best GTA for me.
Moribundman
11/03/09 @ 09:47
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Respectfully MBar: Bollocks.

The impression I got was someone's terminally untrendy dad trying to get "down with the kids" with varying levels of success and accuracy... The CODathon and the mandatory nod to Fable with its luvvie involvement and luvvie MD seemed a little out of step with what actual games journalists and gamers think...

Well, that's just my two cents, but then again I'm a GTA fan and I found Fable to be great for a weekend but far shallower than the orgasmic reviews (and Molyneux, natch) suggested.
Triggerhappytel
11/03/09 @ 10:51
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Interesting how no-one's mentioned TLaD's sales numbers yet. I wonder how well it has done, really.

Anyway, I hope T2 live out the financial troubles okay, as they constantly seem to be on the verge of collapse (they'd be fucked if it weren't for R*!). They need to develop more of their own IPs and stop relying on R* to bring so much money in.
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11/03/09 @ 13:01
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I found Fable to be great for a weekend but far shallower than the orgasmic reviews suggested.

Change Fable to GTA4 in that sentence and that's exactly what I thought of it. Played it, finished it, wondered why I'd bothered, never touched it again. It's no where near as good as the ZOMG100/10 reviews suggested, and is in fact a step back for the series IMO.

I'm probably biased, but it annoys the hell out of me that GTA4 is reviewed and ranked up alongside the likes of Ocarina of Time for Best Game Ever when it, in my eyes, is more like a 8/10.

13 million units sales, I wonder what fraction of that the DLC numbers will be? You can put me in the DLC No Sale column for one.
Rodchenko
11/03/09 @ 13:26
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My biased opinion: Congrats to R*. Well deserved. Still playing GTA 4 and still loving it. And 'The Lost and the Damned' definitely raised the bar for DLC, plus being an excellent game all in itself.
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11/03/09 @ 14:48
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I shipped 13 million units last night. If you know what I mean.
myke6699
11/03/09 @ 22:40
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This article forget to add that GTA IV sold almost equally on both PS3 and the 360. Excerpt from Take-Two Earning Call Transcript:

Edward Williams - BMO Capital Markets

First of all, going back to JT's line of questioning, can you give us an idea as to this 13 million GTA 4 units, how many of those are Xbox 360 platform? So what's the addressable market for the downloadable The Lost and Damned.

Lainie Goldstein

It's approximately 50/50, Ed.

So the DLC isn't much of an incentive after all.
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