GameStop Says 360 Outsold PS3 GTA 2-1
Posted by Chris on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 2:14 pm under Game Companies, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Games, Grand Theft Auto, Microsoft, Microsoft, Rockstar, Sony, Sony
Microsoft went pretty number-crazy after Grand Theft Auto IV was released, claiming that 40% of new consoles sold with a copy of GTA, sales of the 360 increased 54% over the week prior to GTA’s release and, most notably, that about 60% of all copies of GTA sold in the US were the 360 version. We now have another source to back up that claim — GameStop, which says that 64% of all copies sold were for the 360, compared with 36% on PlayStation 3, in the game’s first week of availability.
There’s no doubt that this has to do with the larger install base of the 360 here in the US. But how exactly did the game perform compared with the relative install bases? As of March, the NPD group reports that 9.9 million Xbox 360 systems and 4.1 million PlayStation 3 systems had been sold. Now, without including the number of systems sold in April (which shouldn’t have too drastic an impact on these numbers, anyway), the 360 holds 70.7% of the total 360 and PS3 systems sold to the PS3’s 29.3%. So with 64% of the copies of GTA being sold on 360, Microsoft’s box actually underperformed compared with PlayStation 3.
You can see how the two companies will go about spinning sales of the game, but at least we can begin to see the reality of this matter.
via Level Up
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May 13th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
jesus who gives a crap!
May 13th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
The numbers look very accurate.
My store had 184 copies of the 360 version, and 79 copies of the PS3 version. We sold out within the first day and a half, including midnight release, then were restocked with 64 copies of the 360 version and 23 PS3. After being restocked it took us about 2 days to sell out of the 360 version again, but still sitting on handful of the PS3 version.
May 17th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
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May 22nd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
[...] won by a few thousand copies if the total sold on day one is 3.6mil and 64% of that is purely 360 (sourcesource 2) which is 23,040,000 million copies and halo sold 2.34mill so it was pretty close. [...]