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Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
On Monday, GameStop (GME) released their split of GTA IV (TTWO) sales, and Microsoft won 64-36 . So what's next? The spin doctors on each side come out and pump up their own console while bashing their competitor. Xbox exec Aaron Greenberg (MSFT) : I think many people have been surprised to see how well GTA IV is selling on Xbox 360 given the history of the franchise. These sales results add GTA IV...
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Joystiq (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3 , Microsoft Xbox 360 , Business Preliminary numbers news now: gaming mega-retailer GameStop shared some Grand Theft Auto IV sales data with N'Gai over at Newsweek, who in turn breaks it down relative to the install base for each platform. Of course, these numbers only account for GameStop sales and, as Sony's Peter Dille points out, "GameStop probably does a little...
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Destructoid (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
GameStop has revealed their first-week sales numbers for Grand Theft Auto IV exclusively to Level Up and they're certainly not too surprising. According to the specialy retail giant, roughly 64 percent of the copies sold were on the Xbox 360, with the other 36 percent (obviously) for the PlayStation 3. Microsoft FTW? According to Level Up's number crunching, an Xbox 360 victory is not quite so clear....
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PS3 Fanboy (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Filed under: Business According to Level Up , the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV has been outselling the PS3 at nearly a 2-1 ratio, with 64% of sales going to Microsoft's platform, and 36% going to Sony's. Granted, this data comes from first week sales at GameStop, which will skew towards early-adopting hardcore gamers. Many had suggested that GTA was so strongly associated with the PlayStation...
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Level Up (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
On Monday, GameStop exclusively revealed to Level Up that during the first week that Grand Theft Auto IV was available in its U.S. stores, 64 percent of all copies sold were for Xbox 360 and 36 percent for Playstation 3. We sought reaction from both Microsoft and Sony to GameStop's results and our impromptu analysis, a portion of which we shared with you on Monday. Today, we're publishing our conversations...
