Sony winning Euro GTA IV battle News

/Slits Wrists

Europe is the new Japan.

When will it ever end?...

I am bored of this, but in the interests of fanning the flames, how do the combined PS3 figures for Germany, Spain and the UK compare the same for the 360 version? I can't be bothered to check and I'm hoping Swam or someone might do the sums and proudly report them if they're in 'his' favour.

A never ending story this..

hahahahaha

hits, hits, hits for the site :P

just out of interest, does anyone even read these articles anymore? Do people just jump stright in the leave a fanboy comment?

Seems over for the PS3. I guess it had an ok run.

So by "Euro", you mean 2 countries? There are figures for Holland from last week, for example, that show 360 selling more copies of GTA IV in that country. Isn't the headline rather misleading?

And, UK alone means more units than Germany+Spain combined.

@crwoody

PS3 sucks

360 is the leet.....


......sorry, what were you saying?

just out of interest, does anyone even read these articles anymore? Do people just jump stright in the leave a fanboy comment?
It doesn't look like miiguel reads them for starters.

Arbiter, lol... chill dude, PS3 is cool, no need to get *that* upset. A Famitsu most wanted list for... Japan? In a GTA sales thread.

Oh man... ;)

lol... nice tagline for the article.

wtf is with this consistent pandering to system wars?

If everyone boycotted them, maybe they'd stop making articles out of them.

Es tut mir leid! Auf Wiedersehen!

Jesus Christ, enough with the GTA IV stories now EG. It's getting quite ridiculous now.

it's ok mate, don't get me too serious... ever. ;)

@Arbiter

Animal Forest?

Ok, Nintendo don't exactly have a list of upcoming games for once, not even delayed ones (I've already got smash bros). Even E3 is still, what? two months away...

I'll be over here not caring which version/console does better.

QUICK POLL!
Who actually gives a shit about this?

* Me
* Not me

Choose!

*Not me

I do care which version is better/sells more.

That is, I care more about that than anything to do with my uber boring job.

Therefore I will happily continue reading these articles, and anything else Eurogamer decide to put up, until I either retire, or get fired.

"Eurogamer fan is found dead at desk"

Postmortem shows that he got so bored with the same articles that he smashed his head through his monitor.

Most people on these threads are sounding like pissy little bitches. I'm all for a healthy debate but the twunts who reply to these threads moaning about the console wars are ruining it for those that want a proper slag fest.

...and yeah, we read these news stories - not exactly much to read but we read them.

I'm thinking the staff of Eurogamer add these bits of news for their enjoyment only - I know I would if I worked for them!

I am officially boycotting this fucking site due to all this GTA coverage and PS3 vs 360 articles. I own all the consoles and I've been a regular viewer of this site for probably 3 or 4 years and this whole GTA horseshit and PS3 vs 360 refresh rate competetion toss is utterly childish and uninteresting. So much for gaming being a mainly adult pastime, well done Eurogamer, you're now setting the image of gaming back by years. Lucky non-gamers don't read your site I guess. Just like I won't be anymore.

"Grand Theft Auto IV has proven more popular in both the Spanish and German charts.

In Germany the Xbox 360 version took second, with the 360 special edition in sixth and PS3 special edition in eighth."

Ahh but what was the difference in number of sales between 1st and second plave, and 6th and 8th place and when total sales are added together which console sold more?

More importantly though why are there no news storys on how shit the social club is, as soon as I hit 100% it wiped all my stats

* Me . I loves me a good old flame war!

>"but the twunts who reply to these threads moaning about the console wars are ruining it for those that want a proper slag fest. "

People who want a "slagfest" in the interwebby are likely to be slags in real life.

I do agree with many of the previous posters... This is crap reporting EG...

mmmh how about France, Italy and all the others? No figures?

* Me

As a PC user my best hope for getting more games on the system is if all the 360 and PS3 owners kill each other off. So keep 'em coming, EG.

* Not me

theyre all dumb anyway

Soooo... First off, GTA IV is selling loads more on PS3 than Germany than on 360... Oh except for the Special Edition, which is selling loads more on the 360 than on the PS3... Errr... Aren't these both the same game? Which is actually selling the most overall?

Secondly; for fucks sake... you can spin this either way. In political terms this is not Labour pwning Tories in 1997 or er... the other way round in 2008... It's spinnable either way. PS3 is absolutely flooding its user-base, with a far higher percentage of PS3 owners buying the game. On the other hand, the 360 is selling way more copies of the game overall, but to a far smaller percentage of possible users.

Thirdly when talking percentages of copies sold per console, nobody yet seems to be considering the age factor - the 360 may have shifted many many more consoles than the PS3, but it stands to reason that many of these 360 owners are under 18 and not old enough to own GTA IV legally. It's been acknowledged that the PS3 has an older average user age (unsurprising given the relative price) so presumably a larger percentage of PS3 owners are allowed to buy the game than the percentage of 360 owners...

In short there's no genuine like for like way of measuring whose willy waves furthest. You'd have to only count people over 18 who own the consoles, figure out how many of them bought GTA, work out a percentile... You'd have to be a complete obsessive nerd...

Oh hang on, I just saw the GTA IV technical faceoff on Eurogamer... ;-)

There's no way you're bored of this yet.

glol

Best subheading ever.

it's all lies... clearly I am the reall winnar!!

Anyone who doesn't work at Sony's or Microsoft's gaming department and still maintains the notion of something like a "Euro GTA IV battle " should seriously have his head checked.

Its all bollocks until someone who isn't Microsoft or Sony actually give us their opinion.

This is getting stale now. Enough with the troll baiting "articles" eurogamer. Please.

WHY WON'T ANYONE THINK OF THE NINTENDO-FANBOYS?!

@vercetti102 - "Dumb fat Americans... vs Wize thin Europeans"

That expains everything! It's all crystal clear for me now.

/Nominates vercetti102 for Wize & Thin European poster award

Seriously though, none of this is important unless we have the comparitive sales for GTA IV .....on the Isle Of Man....come on EG, you're slacking a bit now :-)

simakperrce - "Which version smells better?"

I've heard the 360 smells like a fat sweaty american ass... but the PS3 version smells like the interior of a new Ferrari!

@Uncle_Fishboy

You forgot to sign your post "Mr Angry of Tunbridge Wells" ;)

FFS just let it go... GTA IV is over, move along nothing to see here.

I still like San Andreas better..

@Putty Man

What you said is a sentiment that seems to hold completely true with ever the complainers in these threads.
Why read these things just to spend your life writing complaints about it, and if you don't read them your just like those people who write into Points of View to speak your mind on issues your not even concerned about.

I like statistics and sales, that I find interesting, I like to watch which consoles are leading in sales on a weekly basis, I couldn't really give a darn which version is minimally better. Stop treating your console like a football club, its just retarded.

I've just checked around my house, and I was the only one to buy a PS3 version of GTA.... Euro Gamer hasn't even put it on the front page yet. Slackers!!!

Ah, so Germany has finally managed to conquer all of Europe I see. Spain survived because of its neutrality I suppose.