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GTA IV has maintained its domination of the German, Spanish and Swedish charts. Next-Gen.biz reports that GTA IV for PS3 has taken the No.1 spot in Spain and Germany for the week ended May 11th, while the Xbox 360 version charted in fourth and second respectively. The 360 version came …
Read More »UK CHART: GTA IV makes it three weeks at No.1
Rockstar’s GTA IV has enjoyed a third week at the top of ChartTrack/ELSPA’s All Formats chart in the UK. The free-roaming title keeps Wii Fit in second spot – despite a dip in sales of 41 per cent. However, Nintendo’s health-promoting title also suffers on the High Street, with sales …
Read More »Wii Fit topples GTA IV in Oz
Wii Fit has overtaken Rockstar’s GTA IV at the top of the Australian charts, according to GFk data. According to next-gen.biz, GTA IV was knocked off the top spot after only one week at the summit. However, the sandbox title did claim second and third on the chart, followed by …
Read More »GameStop: 64 per cent of GTA units sold on 360
North American retailer GameStop has revealed to Newsweek’s Level Up blog that 64 per cent of its first-week GTA IV allocation was sold on Xbox 360. However, in a phone conversation with Newsweek, PlayStation’s senior vice president of Marketing Peter Dille has claimed that the PS3 consumer is ‘overindexing’ on …
Read More »UK CHART: GTA holds on to No.1; hits 1m sales
Rockstar’s GTA IV has retained the top spot in the ChartTrack/ELSPA All Formats Chart for a second week – despite a massive 77 per cent drop in sales. The record-breaking title still managed to outsell Nintendo’s Wii Fit – which held onto second spot – by 4-to-1 in the week. …
Read More »Charlie Brooker: GTA IV script is ‘downright adolescent’
After a bombardment of 10/10 reviews and reports of ‘the biggest entertainment launch of all time’, is there anything left to say about GTA IV? There is, according to The Guardian’s Charlie Brooker – although not all of it is as positive as the specialist press reviews. In his latest …
Read More »Rockstar boss: Riccitiello is the real deal
In a very rare interview, co-founder of Rockstar Sam Houser has spoken of his respect for EA CEO John Riccitiello – the man who could own the developer’s parent Take Two in a matter of days . Houser called Riccitiello the real deal” and admitted that he ‘showed interest in …
Read More »Daily Mail falls in love with GTA
The Daily Mail has given GTA a 5/5 rating on its entertainment pages – just days after the newspaper called the game ‘squalid mind poison’ Reviewer James O’Brien was full of praise for the title, saying it was ‘as epic as it is violent’. In the article, he wrote: ‘There’s …
Read More »GTA IV: Biggest entertainment launch of all time
GTA IV has become the most lucrative entertainment launch of all time – dwarfing best-ever releases in music, video and literature. Take Two has confirmed that GTA IV sold six million units globally in its first week – with an estimated retail value of more than $500 million. The title …
Read More »GTA IV shatters UK first-week sales records
Rockstar’s GTA IV has smashed all UK first-week sales records, according to official data obtained by MCV from industry monitor ChartTrack. The game sold 926,000 units in the five-day period between its release (Tuesday, April 29th) and Saturday, May 3rd. According to ChartTrack/ELSPA data, the title took a total of …
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