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Grand Theft Auto IV, first week sales: Halo 3 is still the champion

Now that one week has gone since GTA IV release, the statistic for the GTA IV sales the first week has been released on vgchartz.com.
If we take GTA IV on both consoles and compares it with Halo 3, then GTA IV would of course win, but since Halo 3 is exclusive for Xbox 360, should we not compare GTA IV side by side with Halo 3 one console at a time?
Well then it shows that GTA IV has sold about 3.3 millions copies on Xbox 360, and about 2.65 million copies on PS3.
The conclusion is still that Halo 3 is the leader of first week sales with a crushing 3.75 million copies sold the first week

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Published: 77 days 3 hours ago | News | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360

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sonarus - 77 days 11 hours ago

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combined sales surpass halo 3. But 360 sales do not. Halo 3 had more marketing power and is an exclusive game so this really shouldn't surprise anyone.

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Capt CHAOS - 77 days 11 hours ago

1.1 - Impressive though, considering how small the 360 install base was back in those days..

Impressive indeed..

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sonarus - 77 days 10 hours ago

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PS3 install base hasn't grown much since halo 3. Halo 3 was responsible for their massive xmas season and they have been on a decline since then.

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Time Lord - 77 days 7 hours ago

1.4 - the amount of money MS pump in to marking Halo 3 is astonishing

so much so that my father who is 60, and never played single game in his long life, wanted to try it.

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KingME - 77 days 3 hours ago

1.5 - @timelord

Hmmm,

Did your father want to try it because of the ads on TV intrigued him, or because of the amount of money MS pumped into marketing it. Also, exactly how much money did MS spend? Also please provide the GTA IV marketing spreadsheets for comparison purposes.

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Your friends at N4G.

@tamd (Below)

Did you even check the rating on Halo 3 before you spewed that out, or is this how you respond to everything. (Spurting out non-sense)

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Jason 360 - 77 days 3 hours ago

1.6 - sonarus

decline? 360 sales have increased in europe do to the price cut, 360 has taken back NA, and game sales continue to dominate all gaming platforms combined.

sonarus: declined is a fantasy word for PS3 fans that still live in denial, while driving to work everyday in never never land.

"decline" would be Blu-Ray movie and stand alone player sales, the 360 has been nothing but progressive from day one.

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sonarus - 77 days 3 hours ago

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But they are not selling as much as they were when halo 3 came out. Hence the sales declined as expected once the halo effect wore off.

Overall yr to yr, their sales are about the same, maybe a little bit more maybe a little bit less but they are still being outsold by a more expensive console? So go figure

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chaosatom333 - 77 days 2 hours ago

1.8 - let me say this once

xbox does not equal gta.

xbox = halo.
see the argument here?

xbox does not equal third person games.

xbox = FPS games

see the argument here?

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RecSpec - 77 days 2 hours ago

1.9 - @1.5

Eh, marketing doesn't really draw nongamers in,

Most non-gamers I've converted have been due to first hand experience, time with the Guitar Hero controller, dance pad, DS, etc.

Then again, it's easier for them to jump in because there are those cheap plug and play things as a gateway drug into gaming.
I got my 6 year old cousin one for her birthday, a week later, my aunt and uncle are going, ok what exactly do we need to play this. (referring to my console version of GHIII) and of course the answer is a lot simpler than they think.

Of course more non-gamers are talking about it because of the face time on news and magazines, not cause of the marketing. Heck, even local news stations are interested, and not in that "Look at this weird thing" No, they are treating it like a big movie launch.

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mabreu - 77 days 6 hours ago

2 - OMG! I'm shocked!

Just kidding. Seriously though, good move by R* to release this game on both platforms.

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Breakfast - 77 days 2 hours ago

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they sure did cash in...lol.

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Meus Renaissance - 77 days 3 hours ago

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1 in 2 Xbox 360 owners bought Halo 3 upon its launch

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Noodlecup - 77 days 3 hours ago

4 - Yeh but...

Halo sucks balls

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Kigmal - 77 days 1 hour ago

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That's more then you'll ever get in your life.

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toughNAME - 77 days 3 hours ago

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Did toughNAME call it or what:

GTA IV Fails To Conquer Halo 3 Sales Record
http://www.slicegaming.com/...

Hate to rub it in, but there were doubters on N4G.

***And this is the rare time you will see me comment on a sales article

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Slayer OP - 77 days 3 hours ago

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Dude we all know vg chartz is as innaccurate as hell. All official sites say the exacy opposite.

http://n4g.com/News-142936....

http://ir.take2games.com/Re...

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toughNAME - 77 days 2 hours ago

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Please show me what site says GTA on 360 sold more than Halo 3 in their first weeks.

This is the first I've heard of it. Lol but it's pretty funny when everyone whines about how disappointing GTA is and how its not working for them, but when its put up against Halo 3 is it GOD!

EDIT - I agree sonarus, when FOX news covers GTA its the highest selling game breaking every record. But was my article not right?

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sonarus - 77 days 2 hours ago

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Halo 3 generated 300 million first week? GTA was projected to generate 400million. For it to surpass halo 3, it would have had to outsell ps3 version 3-1. No one expected the 360 GTA sales to surpass halo but WE ALL expected ps3+360 sales to surpass Halo3 as it obviously did

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Jason 360 - 77 days 2 hours ago

5.4 - Agreed sonarus

Some are assuming this article is "worldwide multiplatform" Anyone who didn't expect GTA IV to outsell on both, live in a severe state of denial, and anyone thinking this article is multiplatform clearly didn't read it.

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jessupj - 76 days 19 hours ago

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So in other words, gta4 trounched halo 3. You can spin it all you like but gta4 has now taken halo 3's thrown. I see the writter of this articles is desperately trying to convice himself otherwise.

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tamd - 77 days 3 hours ago

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rating matters gta is rated 18 only adults can buy and halo was teen so many teenagers buy thats y halo lead

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aaquib - 77 days 3 hours ago

6.1 - PHAIL

Halo 3 is rated M for Mature.

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popup - 76 days 17 hours ago

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You are right, Halo is 15 and GTA is 18 (in the U.K). I would also imagine that the lack of getting blowjobs from Hookers and running over old ladies in Halo3 may have helped parents under pressure to buy the game for younger children than 15 too.

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Mr Marbles - 77 days 3 hours ago

7 - Halo

is bigger than the beatles, nothing will ever unseat the King.

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outlawauron - 77 days 2 hours ago

7.1 - well

Technically GTA 4 did. Just not GTA 4 on 360.

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