A milestone in gaming: Grand Theft Auto IV breaks 500 million barrier in first week
Written on 8th May 2008
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Patrick de Laive, Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of The Next Web Conference. Twitter: @patrick
The days that a Hollywood blockbuster gets the headlines when they break box office records are over. Gaming is hot, and you can be pretty sure that gaming is here to stay. Last week Grand Theft Auto IV was released and over 6 million copies were sold in the first 6 days, coining in a nice 600 million dollars!
To give you an example, the box office sale of GTA IV exceeds sales of all movies in theaters right now. It exceeds the $407 million that Pirates of the Caribean generated in the first week. It exceeds the 255.000 sold copies of Madonna her new album, Hard Candy, in the first week (not only in numbers but also in price per item sold. A CD is $20 dollars and GTA IV $90).
“Grand Theft Auto IV’s first-week performance represents the largest launch in the history of interactive entertainment, and we believe these retail sales levels surpass any movie or music launch to date” Strauss Zelnick (producer of GTA IV) stated.
The conclusion: Games are the new blockbusters!
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By adam on May 10, 2008
It is amazing, how many times this game is mentioned in daily newspapers or weekly magazines in serious or yellow one (not adverts, but short or full page articles about the violence, yet it’s all more than perfect PR/marketing at no cost). A kind of ‘Da Vinci Code’ + ‘Harry Potter’ integration + 5x higher price range per piece!
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By HALO 3 on May 11, 2008
HAHAHA HOLLLYWOOD WHAT ARE U GOING TO DO? CRY? HAHAHAH ALL UR BASE R BELONG TO HALO 3 AND GTA IV GAMING = BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES = LACKLUSTER AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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