GTA IV breaks the six million barrier

  • Posted August 21st, 2008 at 12:19 EDT by
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Grand Theft Auto IV unsurprisingly sits at the top of the pile for worldwide sales in 2008, shifting a whopping 6.29 million copies since the beginning of the year.

Over 1.5 million of those were in the UK alone, but no breakdown was given in terms of a 360/PS3 split. Super Smash Bros Brawl for the Wii sits in second place on 5.43 million units, Mario Kart is in third with 4.7 million, Wii Fit takes fourth with 3.6 million, and GHIII managing an outstanding 3.48 million sales.

The reports were culled from leading analysts such as Chart Track in the UK, Enterbrain in Japan, GFK in Europe and NPD in the US, representing the most accurate forecast of global sales available.

Keep it up Rockstar.

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  1. MMDs | MMDs

    • 12:25pm BST - August 21st, 2008

    Rockstar better fix the online issues with this game or i might have to trade it in. I'm so pissed off at the lack of support for this game.

  2. selfish

    • 12:27pm BST - August 21st, 2008

    That's all? Didn't the previous PS2 iterations sell more? I'm sure it helps rockstar but to mee, that just seems a little lower that what I thoght it would have being on 2 systems this go round.

  3. manuel_garcia | PresidenteGarcia

    • 12:33pm BST - August 21st, 2008

    It'll top out way above that level, DLC and PC version will boost sales futher also.

  4. psycho_mantis | makaveli_71

    • 12:40pm BST - August 21st, 2008

    just means 6 million people like buying cr4p....

  5. I95SOUTH | I95SOUTH

    • 1:13pm BST - August 21st, 2008

    So rockstar but gta4 lack what gta went for in the past. I mean you down graded from the last game, your supost to add each time. And with this being the first next gen game of its kind, it was the biggest disapointment. No moding cars with changing color or adding rims, you can't buy anything but cloths and food. there isn't anything to do after you beat the game, nothing. There was a lot more that could have been added to the bluray to keep the game going. But nooooo, you wanted to keep it the same as all the rest of the sorry dev's and leave us with 40gigs of free space on our bluray. I'll have to think about it before I buy the next gta.

     

    psn id: I95SOUTH

  6. angryplaystationdude | sympozium_666

    • 1:15pm BST - August 21st, 2008

    GTA V meh

  7. DoctorBaglioni | Necron

    • 1:43pm BST - August 21st, 2008

    Hmm, I assume that the next GTA project will probably launch ... late 2009? (Remember Vice City launching only 1 year after III...) A shame that IV wasn't as innovative as I had envisioned. >_>

  8. gingo | gingo

    • 2:01pm BST - August 21st, 2008

    psn id:gingo... GTA4 certainly wasn't the best GTA game but it had great characters and an interesting storyline and maybe it was overrated but it was a 9/10 game at least

  9. Denali2 | NEJI64

    • 2:10pm BST - August 21st, 2008

    why MGS4 not on that list it should have been tied or just under Wii fit. i gotta say gtaIV was a let down to me it was that bad i didn't finish the game. i only got it to play online and that wanst all that either. RS let the ball slip by going multiplat so soon they left a ton of stuff out from the past gta. gta SA had way more cars then gta IV  the graphics wasent all that and the game play was ok. but ppl say assassin creed was corny because it was just jumping on buildings and sward play but AC is as gud as gta IV since its nuttin but killing ppl and stealing cars

  10. Carl | almighty-slayer

    • 2:22pm BST - August 21st, 2008

    1.5 million in the UK? Wow...We realy snapped them up!

  11. sovereign

    • 2:28pm BST - August 21st, 2008

    Still a rubbish game though

  12. TekkenLord | HitMan00

    • 2:38pm BST - August 21st, 2008

    what 6 million people bought this garbage.

  13. bloodwarg | bloodwarg

    • 3:00pm BST - August 21st, 2008

    mgs4 not on list as it only available on ps3 thats the sales across all systems of gta

  14. BayBud

    • 3:38pm BST - August 21st, 2008

     sycho_mantis

    4

    just means 6 million people like buying cr4p....

     

    Couldn't agree more!

    I loved vice city and san andreas but i hated GTA4.

  15. swordmaster13 | InvincibleSIKH

    • 3:40pm BST - August 21st, 2008

     this game was fun at start but after a while call of duty 4 started to take over.

    PSN ID: InvincibleSIKH

  16. MotorStormman222 | BuffaloNY92

    • 3:41pm BST - August 21st, 2008

     GTA sucks LETS GO SAINTS ROW

  17. Bigsmoke94

    • 3:49pm BST - August 21st, 2008

     

     @psycho_mantis... just because you're ten years old and not allowed by your parents to play gta doesn't mean you should rag on it. 

     

    go away and play mario tennis..

     

  18. M-O-P-E-Y

    • 4:18pm BST - August 21st, 2008

    If it was such cr@p, then be quiet and go play something else. Stop complaining

  19. Triple Dk | TripleDk

    • 4:23pm BST - August 21st, 2008

    Wow, a lot of haters here... I thought people liked it better than that!

  20. I95SOUTH | I95SOUTH

    • 4:59pm BST - August 21st, 2008

    It wasn't a bad game, it just lack alot of things. They made it more real but left out alot of stuff to keep it going. once you beat it it doesn't get cut back on... and i'm not talking about multi player because everyone don't go online. And gta is not a game I can go online like every other game. With a map that big they could have let 100 people on it easy.

     

    psn id: I95SOUTH

  21. joeyjoejoeshababadoo

    • 5:48pm BST - August 21st, 2008

    Wow you guys are such haters.. GTA 4 was one of the few games that are actually worth $60

  22. Ocelot1987 | METSTM

    • 9:31pm BST - August 21st, 2008

    GTA IV was alright and I'm not surprised at all that they made the most money of all video games. That game is very hyped but the next one might not be so much after this game.

  23. sn-plazaskater | METSTM

    • 10:55pm BST - August 21st, 2008

    congrats R*! The More developing money V can get..the better

  24. stovich | TasteLikeBurning

    • 2:38am BST - August 22nd, 2008

    Wow, must have sucked terribly for selling so many. It's too bad that the haters have been denied a good game for so long that they can't recognize one when they play it.

  25. T-Dogg400 | T-Dogg400

    • 5:36am BST - August 22nd, 2008

    I still think the game is great, but reached over the six mill mark - ain't it reached that mark few weeks ago lol.

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  • Related game: Grand Theft Auto IV

    Release date (US):
    April 29th, 2008
    Developer:
    Rockstar North
    Genre:
    Action - Third Person
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