Bookmaker takes bets on GTA IV chart success

  • Posted April 30th, 2008 at 06:16 EDT by Mike Harradence
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Popular bookmarker Paddy Power has started taking bets on how long Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV will remain at the top of the UK charts, offering odds of 9/2 that the crime epic will stay there for ten weeks.

Nintendo’s Wii Fit is currently lined up at the odds of 6/4 to knock the game off the top of the charts, followed by Mario Kart Wii, which is also a favourite to topple Rockstar’s latest epic.

Paddy Power has previously offered bets on a number of related topics in the videogames industry, such a last year, where the bookie ran bets on how low Sony would cut the price of the PlayStation 3 in Europe.

Stay tuned for our review on Grand Theft Auto IV soon.

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  1. coveted | coveted

    • 6:31am BST - April 30th, 2008
    • 1

    i say it will stay on top till haze comes out.

  2. gingo | gingo

    • 8:42am BST - April 30th, 2008
    • 2

    psn id: gingo.... i reckon it will be 6 weeks before it is knocked off the top spot

  3. RuiyJR | Tseska_922

    • 9:12am BST - April 30th, 2008
    • 3

    i bet 7 weeks ( ha ha just guess :P )

  4. DarkJ3JB | DarkJ3JB

    • 10:03am BST - April 30th, 2008
    • 4

    I'm going with probably 5 weeks tops.   But I'm not in UK so I don't know.

     

    PSN: DarkJ3JB

  5. lightcloud | lightcloud

    • 10:16am BST - April 30th, 2008
    • 5

    @coveted

    i dont think haze will knock it off its spot GTA will be way more popular than haze.

  6. richkaos | richkaos

    • 10:34am BST - April 30th, 2008
    • 6

    i doubt it will stay there for 10 weeks but then their really isnt that much that could topple it. Ar5enal to win the premiership perhaps :-)

  7. that1guy | Go2Guy

    • 11:08am BST - April 30th, 2008
    • 7

    i dont know how huge mgs4 is over, but it comes out in 6 weeks(ish) and i think that could potentially knock gta4 from the top spot.

  8. cammie | Cammie1

    • 1:37pm BST - April 30th, 2008
    • 8

    its a really popular game but more people hav got wiis so . . . its a tough call think it cood b safe there for a while :D

    AND IVE GOT A HORROR STORY FOR U ALL. on saturday i bought gta from tesco and today it came in the post. so i open it all excited. look at the top. and realise its for the XBOX. hope u lot r enjoying it tho XD. ive ordered it agen soo with a bit of luck (which i am low on atm) it shood come by saturday. if not shood b tuesday or wednesday. i can pray :P

    talk about bad luck tho :-/ lol

  9. InfernoReaper | GrimDarkling

    • 11:48pm BST - April 30th, 2008
    • 9

    @ Coveted: Haze won't even be close to knocking it off.  Ubisoft jacked around and held the game off so it would look better in a business perspective and they lost a lot of fans.

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    Paddy Power didn't say which version.  I'm pretty certain that after 6 weeks, it will drop at leats 1 position on the PS3 chart.  MGS4 anyone?

    And no way a Wii game is going to knock off a huge franchise like GTA, expecially on two platforms.

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