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GTA IV breaks the six million barrier

Posted on August 21st, 2008 at 12:19 EDT

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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posted 12:25pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
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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.

posted 12:27pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
2

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.

posted 12:33pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
3

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

posted 12:40pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
4

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

posted 1:13pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
5

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

posted 1:15pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
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GTA V meh
posted 1:43pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
7

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. >_>

posted 2:01pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
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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

posted 2:10pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
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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

posted 2:22pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
10

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

posted 2:28pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
11
Still a rubbish game though
posted 2:38pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
12

what 6 million people bought this garbage.

posted 3:00pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
13

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

posted 3:38pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
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 sycho_mantis

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

 

Couldn't agree more!

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

posted 3:40pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
15

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

PSN ID: InvincibleSIKH

posted 3:41pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
16

 GTA sucks LETS GO SAINTS ROW

posted 3:49pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
17

 

 @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..

 
posted 4:18pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
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If it was such cr@p, then be quiet and go play something else. Stop complaining
posted 4:23pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
19

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

posted 4:59pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
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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

posted 5:48pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
21

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

posted 9:31pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
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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.

posted 10:55pm EDT - August 21st, 2008
23

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

posted 2:38am EDT - August 22nd, 2008
24

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.

posted 5:36am EDT - August 22nd, 2008
25

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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