The game also managed to drive console sales, raising Xbox 360 sales by 125 percent and PS3 sales by 127 percent from the previous week. Perhaps most impressive of all, in its first week of sales GTAIV has already surpassed all but the top three UK titles of 2007 (FIFA 08, Brain Training, and Call of Duty 4). Just to clarify, that's one week sales versus total sales for 2007. One last statistic: GTAIV is now the record holder for one week sales for a multiplatform game in the UK.
Yow.
[Via Joystiq]
Note: You may have noticed that 413,000 and 514,000 don't add up to 926,000. We're guessing that the numbers are the result of rounding one way or another.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-07-2008 @ 12:38PM
ryanp said...
I think the numbers don't add up because they're on the metric system...it's all liters, and meters, and townes and colours...
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5-07-2008 @ 12:51PM
joey said...
At least we've been freed from British Spelling for more than 200 years.
5-07-2008 @ 12:51PM
Dale said...
Litres, metres.
And using metric makes the numbers more precise - quarts and cups and pounds and ounces and all these other units Americans love so much are olde worlde silly measurements! :D
5-07-2008 @ 5:46PM
bigmac375 said...
lol @ townes and colours as units of measure.
5-07-2008 @ 12:42PM
Ciaran Gallagher said...
That's like, one in every sixtieth person you meet in the UK is an owner of GTA - that's a lot!
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5-07-2008 @ 12:53PM
SadisticHam said...
Ehh..think your maths might be off a bit there, wonder how many of us there are in the UK now..hm..
Anyway I'm surprised at how close the PS3/360 sales are.
5-07-2008 @ 12:54PM
Raheem said...
I'm thinking of buying copies for every homeless person to push those figures up. 1 in 10 ftw!
5-07-2008 @ 12:56PM
mattclarkie said...
60million in the UK, 1 million units.
I think 1 out of every 60people is about right, just his spelling that was funky.
5-07-2008 @ 12:52PM
mattclarkie said...
Nearly everyone in my Friends List has it, seems I am the only one in the UK who doesn't.
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5-07-2008 @ 12:55PM
Raheem said...
Uh, what are you playing at?
5-07-2008 @ 1:25PM
gamerismyname said...
i dont know,but i believe paying to support a king and queen is a bit old worldish.. maybe thats me
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5-07-2008 @ 2:32PM
mikey G said...
The Queen, We Must get the Royal Plum to Stick up her Ass!.
Anyways... to the note down bottom... But who really cares... Look at polling for the democrats... 105% of precincts in! People can never do anything right when it comes to Statistics.
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5-07-2008 @ 3:40PM
jordanho1 said...
love how there's been all this talk about how the game has driven all these new PS3 sales... which it has... but that PS3 is up 127% over last week and 360 is up 125%.
Gotta love the executives spinning everything all over the place. :)
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5-07-2008 @ 5:32PM
TORO said...
Yup, the 360 has been selling strong (comparable to PS3) despite it's already established userbase
5-07-2008 @ 6:24PM
ManicBomber said...
No the 360 isn't and never has sold well in the UK, and this is why they don't deserve to whine about demo's and other regionally locked content that they don't get before the US, you know the millions of people here that actually supported the 360 and didn't wait to buy a PS3.
It's disgusting how much they whine about content when they barely buy more Xbox 360's than Japan.
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5-08-2008 @ 7:31AM
Boff said...
What the fuck are you on about.
5-07-2008 @ 7:06PM
Khayrhalt said...
Gamepress says today : 6 millions of GTAIV sold over the world. He he he.
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