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Copy Clerk  Posts: 83 Joined: 14 Nov 2007    | Take that FOX news |
Paperboy  Posts: 22 Joined: 6 Apr 2008 | Not sure how this best's FOX news... Anyways, no doubt those sales are helped by the 10/10 and other perfect scores the game is getting. I'm not buying it till I've played it myself. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 822 Joined: 29 Nov 2007    |
Do you suppose this is going to encourage Publishers to bribe and wrangle metacritic scores so they can capture these kinds of sales figures consistently? |
Copy Clerk Posts: 63 Joined: 5 Dec 2007  |
Considering that IGN and Gamespy are owned by the same company that owns Fox and they both game GTA4 the highest score possible... Mainstream media are capitalist whores. They will say whatever to make money. They don't report, they create stories. Fox is probably the worst, but they're not that different than any other media source. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 96 Joined: 5 Mar 2008 | There were some signs taped to the GTA4-emblazoned metal detectors at the entrance to GAME when I walked past this morning. Hand written in red marker pen- "GTA4 SOLD OUT. WE DO NOT KNOW WHEN MORE STOCK WILL ARRIVE. SORRY". There have been a few times I've wanted to put signs like that up in Toys'r'us round about December. -Nick |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1019 Joined: 9 Dec 2007   |
Is the sky blue? |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 822 Joined: 29 Nov 2007 | Notice the use of the word 'bust' rather than surpasses or overcomes. Violence I tell you, violence. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2547 Joined: 13 Feb 2008    |
Violence and sex!! Women's chests!!!!11! |
Paperboy Posts: 11 Joined: 19 Mar 2008 | It could be about sclupting, for all we know. |
Paperboy Posts: 48 Joined: 14 Feb 2008 | Now can someone give me a good reason to buy GTA 4? Is there anything new in the game at all? As far as I can tell, nothing has changed. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 5162 Joined: 28 Nov 2007    |
You mean besides a completely revamped combat system and adding in hotwiring? |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 110 Joined: 9 Feb 2008 |
ugh tell me about it. didnt preorder since san andreas was a flop. then found out the day before release it is pretty dam awesome. so i get to wait until i can actually place an order for one when they become available again. CURSE YOU GAME!! |
Copy Clerk Posts: 110 Joined: 9 Feb 2008 |
implemetation of cover based gunfights, drunk driving, online, smashing car windows if the doors locked, making friends with people to have them help you when you phone them, graphics (obvious i know) and i dont know much more since the dam thing sold out in a day sorry for double post |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1550 Joined: 4 Nov 2007  |
QFT. SOmetimes I get sick of hearing "dang sequels with no innovation". They're sequels people! If they weren't about roughly the same thing they'd be spin-offs. Besides, as GTA 4 goes, I'd say it adds a whole bunch.
You should have told the one about the bear in the woods. It demonises those bad ol' publishers much better. |
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GTA IV Busts Day One Sales Records in UK
GTA IV sales in the UK have outstripped all records.
According to Chart-Track, the Rockstar-developed title sold 609,000 units on its first day of sales, besting the 501,000 unit record set by its predecessor in 2004.
The game also set a record for first-day Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 sales by wide margins. 335,000 360 copies were sold compared to the old record of 266,000 for Halo 3, and 274,000 PS3 copies were sold compared to Gran Turismo 5: Prologue's relatively paltry 80,000 copies.
The data was based on initial reports and may change after a closer look on May 6.
Source: Gamesindustry.biz
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