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North American retailer GameStop has revealed to Newsweek’s Level Up blog that 64 per cent of its first-week GTA IV allocation was sold on Xbox 360. However, in a phone conversation with Newsweek, PlayStation’s senior vice president of Marketing Peter Dille has claimed that the PS3 consumer is ‘overindexing’ on …
Read More »UK CHART: GTA holds on to No.1; hits 1m sales
Rockstar’s GTA IV has retained the top spot in the ChartTrack/ELSPA All Formats Chart for a second week – despite a massive 77 per cent drop in sales. The record-breaking title still managed to outsell Nintendo’s Wii Fit – which held onto second spot – by 4-to-1 in the week. …
Read More »Charlie Brooker: GTA IV script is ‘downright adolescent’
After a bombardment of 10/10 reviews and reports of ‘the biggest entertainment launch of all time’, is there anything left to say about GTA IV? There is, according to The Guardian’s Charlie Brooker – although not all of it is as positive as the specialist press reviews. In his latest …
Read More »Rockstar boss: Riccitiello is the real deal
In a very rare interview, co-founder of Rockstar Sam Houser has spoken of his respect for EA CEO John Riccitiello – the man who could own the developer’s parent Take Two in a matter of days . Houser called Riccitiello the real deal” and admitted that he ‘showed interest in …
Read More »GTA IV script and story is “downright adolescent” says Charlie Brooker
But Guardian columnist and former games journo says game still boasts "surprising moments of satire"
Read More »Daily Mail falls in love with GTA
The Daily Mail has given GTA a 5/5 rating on its entertainment pages – just days after the newspaper called the game ‘squalid mind poison’ Reviewer James O’Brien was full of praise for the title, saying it was ‘as epic as it is violent’. In the article, he wrote: ‘There’s …
Read More »GTA IV: Biggest entertainment launch of all time
GTA IV has become the most lucrative entertainment launch of all time – dwarfing best-ever releases in music, video and literature. Take Two has confirmed that GTA IV sold six million units globally in its first week – with an estimated retail value of more than $500 million. The title …
Read More »UK CHARTS: All-conquering GTA IV hits No.1
The biggest All Formats release ever, Grand Theft Auto IV , has hit the top spot in the UK software chart – outselling last week’s No.1 Wii Fit by nine-to-one. According to ELSPA/ChartTrack statistics, the Rockstar title almost broke the one million unit barrier in the week (Sunday, April 28th …
Read More »360 outselling PS3 in GTA software ‘battle’
More copes of Rockstar’s GTA IV for were sold on Xbox 360 than PS3 in the game’s first week on UK shelves – but both companies enjoyed similar success when it came to the ‘system selling’ influence of the title. That’s according to official ChartTrack figures obtained by MCV, which …
Read More »GTA IV shatters UK first-week sales records
Rockstar’s GTA IV has smashed all UK first-week sales records, according to official data obtained by MCV from industry monitor ChartTrack. The game sold 926,000 units in the five-day period between its release (Tuesday, April 29th) and Saturday, May 3rd. According to ChartTrack/ELSPA data, the title took a total of …
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