So here’s some stats from Microsoft regarding Grand Theft Auto IV. You can’t be surprised by any of them, can you? The game doesn’t even need reviewed, you just need to buy it. Even if you weren’t that into the last ones, like myself, this is a whole new level of gaming, and definitely raises several bars. All of these come straight from the Gamerscore team at MS, so when you find out it’s a lie, don’t blame me!
- Actual MS sales data from last week shows Xbox 360 console sales at retail went up 54% week-over-week as a result of GTA’s success
- According to retailers more than 60% of all GTA games sold in the first week were the Xbox 360 version
- Retailers are telling us that the game is attaching strongly to new console sales, with roughly 40% of new consoles selling with a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV
- In the first week, more than 2.3 million people played Grand Theft Auto IV on Xbox LIVE
- GTA IV is now the number one played game on Xbox LIVE
- Over the weekend, we saw the Xbox LIVE service reach 1 million concurrent users
- Gamers have unlocked more than 12 million achievements worth over 100 million gamerscore points in GTA
- Grand Theft Auto IV set a new record for time played, with the average gamer spending more than four hours playing the game on LIVE in the first week alone
May 12th, 2008 at 5:06 am
>Retailers are telling us that the game is attaching strongly to new console sales, with roughly 40% of new consoles selling with a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV
Guilty