Take-Two: GTA IV has shifted 8.5 million copies
- Posted June 6th, 2008 at 06:05 EDT by Mike Harradence
- 23 Comments
Speaking at its second quarter financial results last night, Take-Two revealed that the critically acclaimed Grand Theft Auto IV has sold 8.5 million copies to date out of the 11 million units shipped to retail.
The company also revealed that BioShock, which is headed to the PS3 later this year, has sold a total of 2.2 million copies to date.
Take-Two Chairman, Strauss Zelnick, commented, “Take-Two’s performance has exceeded expectations through the first half of fiscal 2008, clearly demonstrating the creative, operational and financial strength of our business.”
“Our results reflected the extraordinary success of Grand Theft Auto IV, the value of our catalog of titles, and our ongoing initiatives to improve the efficiency of our operations. We look forward to continuing to enhance stockholder value by building on our broad portfolio of internally developed and owned interactive entertainment brands, leveraging the opportunities in the current industry cycle, and operating our business in an effective manner.”
Grand Theft Auto IV has proven to be a runaway hit on both sides of the Atlantic, receiving unanimous praise from both critics and gamers alike, becoming the biggest selling entertainment launch in history.
The game rocketed to the top of the charts across the globe, and has yet to be knocked of its pedestal in the UK, where it has held the top spot since its release on April 29.
Those of you who have yet to read our verdict on this mammoth sandbox title can do so by clicking here.
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Staticneuron
- 2:14am EDT - June 6th, 2008
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Or in another way to put it hesmanes is that the DLC might be substantial. Which would be a cause for envy.
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metalgearHMN
- 2:59am EDT - June 6th, 2008
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who cares, that game didn't live up to the hype. i finished the missions, now there's nothing to do. i should probably try multiplayer though, although it's always like 3 vs 2 which is sh!t
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psycho_mantis
- 3:27am EDT - June 6th, 2008
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haha COD4 shifter over 10 million, gta was overhyped and wasnt as good as the previous ones. the online was okay tho
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TekkenLord
- 3:54am EDT - June 6th, 2008
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this piece of crap sold so much. what is the gaming world coming to.
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Ps3_aDdIcT
- 4:35am EDT - June 6th, 2008
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You're an idiot psycho_mantis, Call of Duty has been out since November, Grand Theft Auto came out April 29th. Do the math.
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IONIXX
- 5:24am EDT - June 6th, 2008
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all of u should wake up! the only reosen GTA IV wasant wat was expected is because wat was expected was the PS3 EXCLUSIVE version, but nope, it had to be dumbed down afew thousand shades so the 360 could handle it, ............wich its barely able to do anyway!....
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princevegeta1980
- 5:33am EDT - June 6th, 2008
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Over 8million copies in just five weeks, that's truely amazing if if it'strue that it's multi platform (I guess EA can stop dreaming about buying out Take Two, lol), now we have to wait and see how well mgs4 sells!
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RedFury
- 7:39am EDT - June 6th, 2008
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Thats good but I can't play GTA4 anymore as it crashes every 5 minutes. No one has come up with a solution yet :-(. I've tried everything. I've got a 60GB PS3 and the patch that Rockstar sent out and the firmware 2.35 will not fix the issue. I'm so dissappointed I'm not playing this game...
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Muzikguy
- 7:41am EDT - June 6th, 2008
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I was disappointed in this game. The graphics are crap, the radio stations are HORRIBLE (3 rap ones? come on!!!), and the controls are terrible. I still have to beat the game, but I might wait a year like I did with San Andreas. Because of GTASA and now GTAIV, I don't think I'll be buying any more GTA games.
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psycho_mantis
- 8:51am EDT - June 6th, 2008
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@ps3addict
i know what u mean but dont oyu think everyone already has gtaiv no so i dont think its sales will increase much more, cOD4 took 2007 and MGS4 will take 2008. -
InfernoReaper
- 9:51am EDT - June 6th, 2008
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@ gabriel1985: What an intelligent and well thought out comment. I wish everyone here would put the same effort into their posts. Thank you for showing us how its done.
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Nice number but I'm still going to wait on it. It seems like a great game but I was getting used to flying a jet to get anywhere.
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Free_Agent
- 5:30pm EDT - June 7th, 2008
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Yeah, I don't think this game was that great either. I'm not surpised it sold so well with all the hype. I bought it on launch day, but was bored after two weeks. San Andreas really was a better game. It's kinda sad really, it seems like expectations for video games has gone downhill.
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PS3sR2DEAR
- 1:02am EDT - June 8th, 2008
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...after trialing the game in-store, I honestly wouldnt buy it unless i could have a lot more pre-purchase fiddling with setup and play - It was awful.
<first impressions>
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xxIvErx
- 3:46pm EDT - June 8th, 2008
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This game didn't appeal to me as I thought it would be. I still can't believe this game got perfect scores from the reviewers. There were just going with the hype this game had...sadly. From this I learned not to judge the game by what the reviewers say. I will judge a game now by playing it and coming up with my own conclusions
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