GTA IV sales hit 926,000 in five days News

everybody wins

Not bad figures for both sides. Peace.

First two comments not fanboy ravings shocker.

Well deserved, imho

The 360 version is more popular, but with the much larger 360 installed base, there's a bigger proportion of Sony owners buying it, and the difference in sales isn't really that spectacular. That $50m for the downloadable content not looking like a good investment now - no surprises there.

So where's the 360/PS3 comparison?
Not found a razor sharp enough to split that hair yet?
(or can't face the onslaught of bile and ignorance it will generate at EG towers)

Well deserved result for R*: memo to Iron Man game etc. developers - quality still sells.
(now please sober up, stop counting your millions and get the freeze bug sorted out kthxbye.)

It's a nice game but by far not as good as some make it out to be. The MP also needs some tweaking and the choice of menu flow is odd in terms of m/m interface rules.

Everyones a winner, more console sales, which meanmore quality games will be developed for PS3/Xbox 360.
Have not been on-line with it yet, can anyone tell me what it is like, I have the 360 version, but if the PS3 is better on-line I might buy the PS3 version as well.

Any comments please

Big.

Good for everybody.

"That $50m for the downloadable content not looking like a good investment now - no surprises there. "

That remains to be seen. Expect a GTA Complete version is shops this XMas ;)

Wonder how the 127% and 125% increases in sales for PS3 and 360 translate into number of consoles sold on the strength of the game.

Go R*

@lambtron - I am sure you won't be disappointed, I am sure swam will be along shortly.

360 for online play, but that version is flawed massively, with the game quitting to single player if you can't connect.

It's also impossible to quit a game and search for a new one without going via a single player load pause and then loading back into multiplayer.

Silly, and should be patched to put a multiplayer option in the menu like in the PSP games.

Spectator mode - although great in concept - is broken again, as I've often jumped into a game in progress only to be sat looking at the scoreboard for an entire 2 rounds of cops & crooks, or a full GTA race.

Broken on purpose? I reckon once online games go pay per play or have some other method of milking the cash, that maybe we'll see more complete online modes.

edit: 'massively' is a huge overstatement. It's flawed. Once you get into a game - it's amazing with little to no lag.

Dunno if the PS3 version is even working yet.

Pretty strong sales. Here in Norway, the game is sold out most places, although some shops still have the Xbox version on shelves. Which should mean that the PS3 version sold better.

But then again, some shops have reported a problem with deliveries of the PS3 version - that whoever makes the PS3 discs was unable to produce the number of copies projected. I don't know anything more about that - except that I certainly have not been able to score a PS3 hit of GTA 4 so far!

So both consoles sold more, both sold lots of games, and it's all fairly equal. Please no arguing for once *gets coat*

127% Hardware boost for PS3 compared with the 125% for Xbox 360 - This is very interesting indeed. I mean you think that with the installed base of the 360 in the uk being about twice that of the PS3, the PS3 would see a much bigger jump ion hardware but it seems the two consoles have seen the same bump. Very interesting!

How many sold in Europe or does UKGamer not care?

>How many sold in Europe or does UKGamer not care?

There are no official numbers for Europe.

3william56....another idiot

PEACE!

Werent both versions constricted by limited supply, anedotal evidence aside "ohh my gameshop had no 360 copies left, must of been the same everywhere :O"

I know i struggled to get a copy for my 360, and i'm sure many 360 and Ps3 owners got the same problem.

Good tho, altho the game is very very flawed in certain aspects.

I was first a little surprised that the PS3 version sold an amount that isn't too far behind the Xbox 360 one, but I'm even more surprised that the boost to 360 sales matched the boost to PS3 sales. Maybe we'll see a more prolonged effect on the PS3 sales than with the 360, time will tell.

3william56: Sony were crowing the other day about surpassing the 360 installed base in Europe, so surely that means a higher proportion of 360 sales and plainly higher sales of GTA4 period?

It's so funny. The sonybots were saying before release that GTAwqould sell more on the PS3 because people think "playstation" when they think "GTA". Now they're saying that it's obvious that it would sell more on the Xbox as it has a larger installed userbase. Consistency FTW! :D

I really don't care either way. I'm a Nintendo fan, just funny seeing it happen.

it deserves to be doing so well, it's a bloody good game.

I think its more telling that there should have been far more sold on the 360 in my view due to the massive advertising Microsoft did for Rockstar - it hasn't turned out that way though as I would have expected a far bigger percentage than has been shown.

I haven't managed a single multi player match that lasted until the end yet, so I'll withhold judgment on it for now. Hopefully they can patch the menu system.

I think though tbh the lay person buying GTA probably doesn't probably know about the DLC.

The 360/PS3 comparsion was up on gametrailers AGES ago. The carbon dating results aren't back yet. No difference apart from miniscule filtering on the PS3 version...oh and the GETALIFE buildings pop-up during the helicopter run. Hmmmm, coincidence?

comparison videos and screenshots ive seen elsewhere its clear what one is ever so slightly better and its the 360 version. however the difference is slight and if you hadnt seen teh comparison you wouldnt even know (or care).

Everybody is NOT a winner... like the poor sods developing Saint's Row 2 ;)

Hey Swam. Didn't you just say the exact opposite in the PS3 topic a few days ago? And I quote:

"And here's the stats:
UK Chart Track
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/gt...

Day one:
360 = 55% of GTAIV sales, Ps3 = 45%

360: 335,000
PS3: 274,000

Now take into account the following:

UK Installed base:
360 = 2,176,497
PS3 = 1,190,864

The Ps3 version sold to just over 1/4 of the entire install base.
THe 360 version sold to just under 1/6th of the entire install base.

Therefore, pretty much conclusive proof that people still associate GTAIV with the Playstation.

I have a feeling MS has wasted £50m."

Now you're claiming the PS3 is infact selling better than the 360 in the UK. And the fact that the 360 version is outselling the PS3 version by more than a million copies worldwide is apparantly a negligible fact to you?

I apologise for updating my post a little late. But your "facts" are definitely being spun to however they best suit you at the time, which alone makes your opinion completely worthless. Your version difference list is also extremely biased, listing small points which may or may not even be true for the PS3 version but leaving pro's off the 360's side. You also completely fail to mention that pop up and load times are so slight on the 360 to begin with, they hardly make a difference.

Sorry, but if you want to have a real argument you can't be so closed minded and biased towards one system.

Not bothered about the figures for sales. What got my attention was the realisation GTA:SA was released in 2004!!! Is that right? I had better crack on with it - I have only completed about 30%!!

What is it with XBOT selective memory for anti-sony facts?

@swam

WinterSnowblind is right, swam :)
What is it with Sonybot, like swam, selective memory for anti-MS facts?

This game was always a Sony timed exclusive...not anymore.
IMO, since Sony execs have said that GTA IV is thought of as a Playstation game and the 360 sold just as well as the PS3....MS scored quite well. Just think if GTA IV was a timed exclusive for Sony, they would have raked in.

@Swam.

That was my mistake. What I meant is that you claimed the 360 was selling better in the UK. Not the 360 version of GTA, the console itself. When now you're admitting the PS3 is ahead in the sales.

glol @ swam calling "vapourware" on the DLC.

Is swam headbog, btw?

"Dunno if the PS3 version is even working yet. "

Its' working fine now - RockStar's lobby servers were busy the first 2-3 days - but I haven't has any problems the last 3-4 days.
GTA4 online is identical in the two versions so just get the version on the platform which you have most online friends on :)

Is swam headbog, btw?

@monkie_king

yes, it is and I feel partly responsible.
I told headbog that most people had him on ignore so his bias Sony propaganda wasnt being read and...POOF!...his next message to me was as...(drumroll)...swam.
He was less annoying as headbog :)

edit...j/k swam/headbog

It didn't seem necessary to point out the 360's flaws to you. :)

All I was trying to point out, that you're being extremely biased. Yes, the differences are so very slight across the board. But then why does something like the Sixxaxes controller (which you're the first Sonybot I've seen say anything positive about) warrant a mention, but the 360's achievements don't?

swam is right - the PS3 is currently outselling the 360 on a weekly basis... but by around 4,000 units only. Given that the 360 has just under a 1 million unit greater installed base though, it's going to be a while before the PS3 catches up at that rate.

Anyway, swam's opinion is pretty null and void - I mean, he actually thought the Haze demo was really good whereas, frankly, it's a big old pile of 'meh'.

Perhaps it should be a name for you?

I'm not ignoring the 360's flaws, or the fact you listed them along with the advantages. My point was that you're ignoring a lot of the 360's other advantages in an attempt to make the PS3 version sound better. Along with your other extremely biased points make your opinion worthless.

Should I just go ahead and write a second post explaining my underlying point every time I have to say something to you?

the reason the ps3 version has higher attachment rate is simple....it lacks the quality and variety of software of the 360.

therefore ps3 users feel they must buy gta4...a bit like how people in the uk MUST go outside on a sunny day. because they're starved on uv exposure.

360 users feel more relaxed about passing on gta4 as the software catalogue has matured and there's allot of quality titles out there.

Oh dear, here we go again. How tedious.

i've not had any popup at all on 360, maybe the drive brand effects it?

the pop in doesnt seem anywhere near as bad as some of the youtube vids i seen made out-maybe the retail version is a little more stable?

Lol swam's in full SDF damage limitation mode now!

Xbox 360 sold more GTA and has sold more consoles world wide. Pull as many numbers out of your ass if you like, bottom line is XBOX 360 IS WINNING AGAINST THE PS3!!!11!!``lol!!one!

(doesn't care either way)

@swam:
With barely 100k between the two versions, it is indeed the 360 version that won the day in terms of total sales, but in terms of attach rate, the Ps3 wins.

The reason the attach rate for this game is higher on the PS3 is because this is one of the only decent games released for that system. Suckers that bought a PS3 can at least relish in the fact that a decent game has finally been released for their hyped up blu-ray player.

Xbox 360 owners have so many great games to choose from already that they didn't feal as compelled to rush out and by this immedietly.

(I am joking btw - I just think that one fanboy rant deserves another)

:)

@swam

firstly, why the fucking hard on for haze? At BEST its a good shooter, but its not a fucking AAA titles system shifter, its just another FPS for fucks sake, why the hard on for it? And face facts, if haze is a success, it WILL be ported to the xbox

Secondly, you do twist the facts to suit your argument, lets look at your assertation about the DLC as 'vapourware'? Are you smoking crack? Vapourware is something in development for YEARS, often promised, and always delayed. The DLC is due out in a few months, around autumn, which, i think is the same time as say Killzone, or Littlebigplanet, are they vaporware, because they have been announced but not released? Shit, PS Home is more like vapourware

As for the 100k/20k vs 96k/16k, what a load of fucking toss. Yes the PS is starting to pick up steam, that was always inevitable (pity it took a year) but the key point here is that it is going to take YEARS for their machine to over take the xbox.

Instead of crowing about how good that is, ask why it took sony, with 11 years in the industry so long, against microsoft, who are only on their second gaming machine, to even begin over taking them

Seriously, sony have totally fucked their launch of this machine, lost a lot of exclusives, pissed on their install base, and laughed at Europe, giving them gimped machines at twice the price of any other territory, and now rely on brand loyalty to sell their machine, rather than technical and creative ingenuity.

Lets face it, its MS's second attempt at a gaming machine, they probably wont win the fight, but they've given sony the fucking hammering of a life time

An dontt even get me started on the 'free' blu ray - that piece of shit is part of the reason the ps3 is so stupidly priced

well like i say, ive not had any popup that ive noticed while playing and im about 25 hours in and ive had plenty of high speed driving and hijacked a the boats and helecopters.

Just to clarify those weekly figures - last week in the UK the PS3 sold 53.5K and the 360 49.5K so it's still a pretty insignificant difference.

Really though, I care not. It is extremely funny watching you try and rabidly defend the PS3 though and hence easy to poke sticks at you and rile you up even more. :-D

I've got all three of the current gen consoles so I just pick and choose which games I want and feel no need to defend any format. That said, I'll usually choose the 360 version of a multi-format title simply because the online implementation is far superior, plus I know a shedload more people who own a 360.

This year's a good 'un for the PS3 though - several decent titles coming (finally) that make me glad that I own one (plus it's the reason I've been able to play Rock Band for the last five months as opposed to having to wait and pay through the arse to get it now).

But Haze? Solid does not equal spectacular. Maybe if umpteen other FPS games didn't already exist (that trump it spectacularly) then it might warrant some attention. However, for those people who only own a PS3 then I guess I can see why you'd be excited. It's a shame, because I was looking forward to it. Maybe my opinion will change if I get to play the full game, but off the back of the demo... nah.

"Swam LOL

Just what do you do in life apart from compile sony sales figures"

hugs his PS3 and kisses pin-ups of Kaz?