NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million - Kotaku Comments

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Zinv — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:09:57 MDT

Now the CEO's of Rockstart can finally complete their life long goals of driving solid gold yachts through seas of cash

Zinv

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

deon845 — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:21:13 MDT

wow nice spend rockstar games!!!

deon845

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Gregson616 — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:33:03 MDT

Didnt think it would beat Halo 3. But after playing it, and seeing the figures, there just no comparison. GTA IV rules!!

Gregson616

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Gwydeon — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:45:47 MDT

@SaintEmpire: That comment is full of Win.

Gwydeon

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

SpishackCola — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:25:09 MDT

Even though I was just making up numbers to show an example in a previous EA/T2 post I totally called 6 million copies in one week.

[kotaku.com]

SpishackCola

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Antiterra — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:17:51 MDT

Has anything, and I mean anything in the history of entertainment ever made this much money, this fast?
And how do you beat that? 'Cause the day they invent a bigger hype machine than GTA IV's, that machine will rebel and destroy humanity.

(After spending 18+ hours on the game, I still think that the global community of reviewers had a Kool-Aid drinking binge for awarding it such high scores, but it's still a pretty awesome game.)

Antiterra

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

OzymandiasX — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:03:12 MDT

[www.pretentiousgamer.com]

That's 40 billion Microsoft points!

OzymandiasX

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

MegamanX — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:31:51 MDT

Just wondering - how much did they invest in the production of the game? Also how much for the printing of materials, packaging, etc? I know the 500 million isn't pure profit.

MegamanX

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Hylian — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:43:03 MDT

Back off EA.

Hylian

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

n99y99r99 — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:23:18 MDT

it is worth every penny of that sixty clams as well.

n99y99r99

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

CubemonkeyNYC — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:00:01 MDT

@ca$h:

When you think about it, 3.6MM copies is far fewer 'units' sold than for a big summer blockbuster, which will sell 10MM+ tickets.

$10 for a 2hr movie vs. $60 for a 40hr game. This market is only going to get bigger.

CubemonkeyNYC

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Gray665 — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:53:00 MDT

If ever there was a game that deserved the success it is achieving, its this one. Seriously, its easily in my top 5 games played EVER, if not #1, and this is coming from a guy who never played the other GTA games for more than an hour or 2. I've played this one 30+ hours in a week.

Gray665

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

BlackDove — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:52:15 MDT

@excel_excel:

60 Euro isn't 60 Dollars.

A mistake most people make.

BlackDove

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

phicaluk — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:45:13 MDT

@DorkimusPrime:

I know, it's crazy, it's almost as if most of the world's population didn't live in the USA or something.

Makes me proud that a game produced here in Scotland can sell these sorts of numbers.

phicaluk

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

SwindleUK — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:32:02 MDT

@edhe (xbl): PC=piracy but i wish i told my dad to put the mortgage into TT shares.

SwindleUK

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Itchy (PSN: Kaizoku-ou) — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:30:32 MDT

@Lixie: No. It's called SPARTAAAAAAAAA!!

Itchy (PSN: Kaizoku-ou)

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

SaintEmpire — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:25:20 MDT

Achievement Unlocked.

SaintEmpire

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Lixie — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:19:08 MDT

@Luke Plunkett: Yes, Busey.

Lixie

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Al Bino — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:05:07 MDT

The special edition of GTA IV would cost about 145$ over here in Switzerland and the normal one about 95$ - but you would leave out the different economies among other things.
Most things are quite expensive over here, cities like Zürich and Geneva are known to be some of the most expensive ones in the world, but in the end we can afford it to buy such expensive games because of our higher salaries (and because we're paying this prices ever since the 80ies and 90ies) - but as I already wrote it everything's very expensive here if you compare our prizes to those in other countries. Take a normal sized menu over at McDonalds, I don't know much it costs in the States, but here you're paying about 11$.
With this said I congratulate Rockstar for this giant success, this is even more than the analysts predicted if I'm right.

Al Bino

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

kmg90 — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:01:56 MDT

recession my ass

this industry can't be hurt!

kmg90

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

PogiJet — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:54:43 MDT

I can see a new GTA San Andreas with a complete makeover in 3 years. (GTA:SA was set in 1992 assuming the new SA is set in the present)

PogiJet

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

DorkimusPrime — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:40:30 MDT

@Gwydeon: That's what I'm trying to figure out...even if it IS $100 in Europe, that means that 60% or more of the sales were outside the US and in territories where the game averaged $100USD.

DorkimusPrime

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Grive — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:36:43 MDT

@hamandcheeseUK: Heh, I actually feel the opposite - I saw San Andreas as a low point. Maybe it was too much nonsense added on top of the GTAness of it, and now it's been toned down in the fourth iteration to a more comfortable level.

Grive

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

EthanW — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:30:52 MDT

@otimus:
All via Wiki.
Halo 3 grossed US$300 million in its first week. The largest opening of any media, even more than Spiderman 3 the movie.

Before Call of Duty 4 was released, it was predicted to sell even more copies than the highly successful Halo 3; it had received as high reviews as Halo 3, it was launching on three systems as opposed to one for Halo 3, and demand for the game led to a wide-range of retailers only having enough available to satisfy pre-orders.[67] It fulfilled the prediction and became the top-selling game for the Xbox 360 from November 2007 to January 2008. It sold 1.57 million units in November 2007,[13] and 1.5 million units in December.[14] It was also the top-selling game for January 2008, selling 331,000 copies for the Xbox 360 and 140,000 copies for the PlayStation 3.[15] As of January 2008, Call of Duty 4 has sold more than seven million copies worldwide, and was the best-selling game of 2007.[16]

Call of Duty 4 is a target of piracy, which may affect the game's sales. One of the game's developers stated, "We pulled some disturbing numbers this past week about the amount of PC players currently playing Multiplayer [...] What wasn't fantastic was the percentage of those numbers who were playing on stolen copies of the game on stolen / cracked CD keys of pirated copies."

EthanW

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Anarchist_Gamer — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:23:35 MDT

I need to play more of this game. Been taking it easy the last few days. Wanking off and the like. Just finishing up the semester. Next week I'll be all over this. One last thing: there is absolutely no way I'd give this game a 10. I'm leaning toward a solid 9, perhaps a 9.5, if I had a few.

Anarchist_Gamer

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

kylenalepa — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:17:25 MDT

Nice job, Rockstar. Nice job. I agree with Darth Navster, though: get working on a sequel to Bully!

kylenalepa

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Darth Navster — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:07:46 MDT

Alright Rockstar, now you have cash. Use it to make a Bully sequel. Bully 2 running on the RAGE engine would be epic!

Darth Navster

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

excel_excel — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:07:13 MDT

@KM91: speaking of printing money? Exactly! Dear god these numbers are INSANE!! Within one week, ONE WEEK, dear god, the money spent on the game is easy to see, the production values are through the roof, of course the game itself is the most fun I've had with a game since Super Mario Galaxy, plus the story, THE STORY!! Niko Bellic maybe the greatest character ever
@BlackDove: Costs 60 euro for the normal edition here

excel_excel

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

munchausen — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:05:28 MDT

so, how much longer until us cheapies can pick this up as a PS3 greatest hit? 18 months?

munchausen

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Blake Ruff — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:02:51 MDT

This means that it outsold Halo 3 right? If it does, that's all I care about.

Blake Ruff

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

everysystemgamer — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:57:47 MDT

words fail me since i cant think of a big word i have to say blugenheimershitz.

everysystemgamer

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Rolandd — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:46:21 MDT

We are giving away one copy of the new GTA IV for people who vote on our poll ([pollsb.com]) as a registered user

Rolandd

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

KK — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:35:37 MDT

'I don't know about you, but I don't know about me either.'

Good going, Rockstar. Let's hope you can stay in your spot.

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

coalhalo — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:27:56 MDT

Rockstar should feel pretty good right about now. The success of GTAIV vindicates the GTA series and nothing shuts up critics like mountains of cash,

coalhalo

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Starsky — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:15:54 MDT

The split between PS3 and 360 would also have been interesting.

Starsky

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Cruithne — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:13:10 MDT

@edhe (xbl): No, but copies of the game hit the interwebs days before general release, leading to much wailing and gnashing of teeth here in Kotaku about piracy damaging the industry.

Cruithne

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Pinhead — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:59:31 MDT

They're gonna have to build a bigger money bin.

Pinhead

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

KM91 — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:56:33 MDT

eaking of printing money...

KM91

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

vig0r — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:53:13 MDT

@vig0r: I was talking to someone next me and that is why that comment was epic lamure,I want every single employee of rockstar to go and buy themselves a ferrari after this,then put a console in the back and go around letting people play gta iv :d,only problem is ferraris dont have back seats ;O

vig0r

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

edhe (xbl) — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:51:54 MDT

@Gwydeon: Other countries have higher prices.
@Cruithne: It's not on PC is it..

edhe (xbl)

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

vig0r — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:51:12 MDT

haha everyone at rockstar must be smiling their asses off right now,half a billion dollars is quite alot of money :D

vig0r

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

jonesjohnson — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:48:37 MDT

@Gwydeon:
Regular and special editions?

jonesjohnson

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

lammy742 — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:46:02 MDT

@Gwydeon: Maybe lots of people are buying the special edition? I did.

lammy742

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

ittekimasu — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:45:14 MDT

and the amount of imports would've helped spike that sale data as well right?

ittekimasu

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

BlackDove — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:45:06 MDT

Europe.

It's $100 and more here.

BlackDove

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Cruithne — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:44:53 MDT

Can someone explain to me once more how piracy harms sales?

Cruithne

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Gwydeon — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:36:55 MDT

How are they averaging $83.33 a sale?

Gwydeon

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Manny — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:28:01 MDT

@Magnum_PI: They need to fix some of the plot holes in IV before they more on. I hoping the DLC will add more story and wrap things up.

Manny

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

FranUnFine — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:27:25 MDT

Congrats, and well deserved. I wasn't really hyped, bought the game on a whim, and I'm really pleased with it.

So, are those 500 million qualifying as goo-gobs already?

FranUnFine

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Zero_ — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:24:53 MDT

3.6 million.... in 1 day? Holy cow...

Zero_

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Magnum_PI — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:21:22 MDT

I think it's safe to say there will be a GTA V or at the very least a GTA: Vice City, San Andreas type game using the technology from this one.......can't wait either which way.

Magnum_PI

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Grinman — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:20:42 MDT

Well generally, good games sell a lot. Did anyone NOT expect figures like that?

Grinman

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Balance_In_Life — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:20:10 MDT

So now that this happened there is really no way EA can buy Take Two at the moment correct?

Balance_In_Life

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Fyren — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:18:27 MDT

Yup. Its always nice when your numbers are 20% higher then the already projected behemoth.

The shareholders got their insurance, TT just gained a million+ worth of sheeps.

Fyren

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

hamandcheeseUK — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:18:22 MDT

2 of those sales were by me.

I personally think San Andreas was the peak of the series, with this not being as good. But still... not being as good as "absolutely amazing" can still mean it is amazing

hamandcheeseUK

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Waldo2129 — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:18:13 MDT

@monorailcat: Agreed. They did an excellent job once again and they deserve it!

Waldo2129

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Br00klyn-Grenade — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:17:54 MDT

Numbers don't lie...

Br00klyn-Grenade

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Mienvard — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:15:08 MDT

[www.20minutos.es]

"Phew"

Mienvard

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

monorailcat — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:13:50 MDT

Well, that game deserves every single sale it gets, it's easiliy the best British game I have ever played, and one of my favourite (if not my absolute favourite) games of all time.

monorailcat

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

phatseejay — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:13:28 MDT

A game worthy of such achievement. Kudos to Rock*. Can't wait to see a comparison of all time greatest release sales.

phatseejay

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

MasterDex — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:12:37 MDT

GTAIV could very well become the best selling game of all time.
@Salen: Yeah, let's hope they do that and blow EA back into little bits.

MasterDex

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Flawless101 — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:12:13 MDT

This is what happens when a good game is mixed with hype to the right level! I can't remember the last time (In the UK) that I saw adverts for a game plastered everywhere!

Flawless101

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Peter-Moore — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:11:36 MDT

@ca$h yeah its grown, I remember when this was all fields.

Peter-Moore

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

Salen — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:02:50 MDT

Yeah, and with all that money, TT can build a fort out of dollar bills to fend off that take over bid from EA. They'll probably make cannon balls out of big bundles of coins.

Salen

NYT: GTA IV's Sold 6 Million Copies, Made $500 Million

cloudtm2 — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:02:47 MDT

Congrats to them for achieving such an accomplishment. Now if only my ps3 hadn't fried up while playing it. Just three more weeks till I get it back from Sony and its back to playing it again (At least till MGS4 comes out)

cloudtm2