More than six million units of Grand Theft Auto IV were sold in the first seven days
GTA IV smashes sales records
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09 May 2008, Shaun Nichols , V3
Grand Theft Auto IV has claimed two entertainment industry sales records, posting the best ever single-day and seven-day sales totals for a computer game.
The highly-anticipated, and highly-controversial, game is the latest instalment in Rockstar Games' flagship franchise.
Take Two Interactive, which owns Rockstar, said that GTA IV sold more than 3.6 million copies on its first day of availability, garnering $310m in sales.
Over the course of the first week, that total grew to six million units and $500m in sales.
The launch has not been without controversy, however. GTA IV has been the target of everyone from spammers to Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
The game was even speculated for a short time to be the cause of a stabbing on the night of its release, although authorities have since ruled this out.
Meanwhile, anti-gaming lawyer Jack Thompson wrote a letter to Take Two chairman Strauss Zelnick's mother in an attempt to shame Zelnick and highlight the damage Thompson believes he has done with the GTA series.
"We knew Grand Theft Auto IV would break new ground in terms of player experience," said Zelnick. "Now it has broken sales and rating records as well."
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Do you agree?
Why not
Why isn't this game considered pornography. It is vulgar and quite degrading to women.
Posted by MIke, 09 May 2008
Computer Game?
This isn't a computer game. It is a console game. It is not available for computers.
Posted by Brian, 09 May 2008
Duh.
Simple general human stupidity: Something is famous, people care, something that is not, they don't care. There's roughly 100 games more violent than this, SOF1/2 or SOF3 recently released. Yet people only care about the big names they read, without doing any research and blurb out crap out of their mouth while contradicting themselves every third sentence.
What are the top 10 things that kill people? Research that and focus on those first, games won't be in that list at all. Prioritize your empty life with something that might make a difference in the end and might have an actual impact on human life.
Enjoy.
Posted by Yavor, 09 May 2008
Best and Brightest
No wonder the US is headed into the dumps. Instead of solving the country's massive problems our best and brightest a're putting all their energy into teaching America's youth to murder, maim and rob. What a mess!
Posted by David Greer, 09 May 2008