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GTA IV is biggest global seller of 2008 News
Wii News by Robert Purchese
Grand Theft Auto IV has sold over 6 million copies to become the biggest-selling game, worldwide, of 2008.
That's according to a new Top Global Markets Report, which is compiled by Japanese, US, and UK chart specialists Enterbrain, NPD and Gfk Chart-Track, respectively.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl broke 5 million sales to take second, followed by fellow Wii exclusives Mario Kart Wii with over 4.5 million and and Wii Fit with over 3.5 million.
Rounding off the top five was Guitar Hero III, which came in at just under 3.5 million sales.
The Top Global Markets Report will be published every month. About time, say we.
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captaineurogamer
21/08/08 @ 18:52
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Wii fit would have probably overtaken GTA IV sales but for shortages
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Huh. If the list separated between console versions, for instance making different entries for GTA IV Xbox and GTA IV PS3, then the top five would be pretty much all Nintendo exclusives. Maybe GTA for the 360 could make fifth.
This list will pretty much remain the exact same for the rest of the year. Don't know what title would be able to challenge any of those games, or anything that can change the order they're listed in. Yay exciting. I don't think the list is very useful, by the way. |
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What real gamers do and do not do is way too Pure Pwnage for me. Guess I am not a real gamer anyway, as I only buy games I enjoy playing; that is probably way too softcore for real gamers. Whatever.
GTA 4 also got a perfect score from quite a few professional reviews, and it has a metascore of 98. That is the highest metascoreever for a game. I agree that GTA IV is overrated and has some dull moments, checkpointing could have been a lot better etc, but claiming that is it shit just silly. |
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kinky_mong
22/08/08 @ 08:56
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Amazing how bitter some people are about casual gaming that they'll interpret a top 5 containing only one casual game (suppose you could count GH3 as well but considering how ridiculously hard the difficulty spikes in that game I wouldn't) as the end of "proper" gaming. I think it's very encouraging that Smash Bros is a close number 2, will hopefully make Nintendo push to get more proper games out instead of the gimmicky stuff.
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BartonFink
22/08/08 @ 10:18
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Good to see some decent games there in the top 5.
Having Wii Fit in there is a bit dubious though is that really a game? |
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"GTA 4 also got a perfect score from quite a few professional reviews, and it has a metascore of 98. That is the highest metascoreever for a game."
Define "professional reviews", there's no such thing. Its just an opinion from someone who's played the game for a short while (in case of some websites 10 minutes). For example: "I agree that GTA IV is overrated and has some dull moments," So therefor you agree that these "professional reviewers" were wrong? Besides i didnt say it was shit.. i said it was shit in COMPARISION to the other gta games.. |
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@ Smelly: you said several things, among them: "Fuck all those fucking casual gamers who buy shit like GTA4. " and "it's the casual gamers who buy games purely on the marketing/violence/media attention who buy stuff like wii fit and gta 4."
I pointed out that GTA didn't merely have media attention of the usual kind (murders inspired by GTA, GTA corrupting or young and all that), it also got rave reviews. And it is a sequel to one of the best selling and most loved game series ever. I don't think GTA IV is shit, although I agree it is overrated (and I did actually finish it, but I was all GTA'ed out after one ending, so my opinion of the game is based on seeing about 65 percent of the content, then). My point is: what are suffenct grounds for purchasing a game, then, if positive past experiences and reviews from well established and respected media (like eurogamer) is too weak? In fact, all of the top five games got very good reviews. If your point is that "brand value" has become more important than actual gameplay quality, then I agree - it is a negative development with all these sequels and big-name (often movie tie-in titles) are shoveled onto ill-informed consumers, while great one-off games like Okami and Bioshock remain neglected. But I don't know how to turn that tide, especially if game reviews are a part of the problem as you seem to imply? Maybe we could find a really trustworthy gaming site and support that in whatever way we can? A little effort is better than no effort. I concider Eurogamer one of the more reliable sites out there (but again, I think they are a little probe to hype-whoring tiltles like GTA) - are there any better ones? |
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michaelius
23/08/08 @ 16:46
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This data is crap it doesn't include this little backwater place on earth known as continental Europe.
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