Rockstar has managed to sell over a million copies of its latest GTA rehash San Andreas, seeing the biggest turn-out of over-18 gamers, or any gamers for that matter, the UK has ever seen.
"This is a magnificent achievement and equates to a staggering estimated value of more than £35 million," said Roger Bennett, director general of ELPSA. "The entire Grand Theft Auto series has been a phenomenal success worldwide, generating sales of more three and half million units in the UK alone. But best of all, this series is home grown, developed right here in UK."
“However, I’m really not looking forward to all the uproar and the endless comments I’ll be forced to make defending its arguably socially unhealthy content it in the coming months,”... Bennett didn’t continue.
"This is a magnificent achievement and equates to a staggering estimated value of more than £35 million," said Roger Bennett, director general of ELPSA. "The entire Grand Theft Auto series has been a phenomenal success worldwide, generating sales of more three and half million units in the UK alone. But best of all, this series is home grown, developed right here in UK."
“However, I’m really not looking forward to all the uproar and the endless comments I’ll be forced to make defending its arguably socially unhealthy content it in the coming months,”... Bennett didn’t continue.
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TigerUppercut 10 Nov 2004 14:04
1/6
Anyone here under 18 and got the game? If so, how did you get it? Any good stories? We'll think about putting together a feature if we get some!
:-)
:-)
Joji 10 Nov 2004 15:00
2/6
Congrats to Rockstar, shows that people do appreciate your hard work, by them racking up the million sales. Despite all the dodgy downloads being out there too. Whether they have helped or hindered sales remains to be seen, but I'm sure there'll be loads more sales xmas and beyond.
Question is can Halo 2 top Rockstar's results?
Question is can Halo 2 top Rockstar's results?
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fluffstardx 10 Nov 2004 16:33
3/6
IIRC, the preorders have alone.
No contest, at all. Any game that outsells a major film on opening day wins, easily.
No contest, at all. Any game that outsells a major film on opening day wins, easily.
SPInGSPOnG 10 Nov 2004 16:43
4/6
Joji wrote:
Question is can Halo 2 top Rockstar's results?
Easily dude! All it will take is for every Xbox owner to buy, like... four copies each.
fluffstardx 10 Nov 2004 21:02
5/6
Found the stats... 1.2 million preorders in the UK alone, every copy of special edition is supposedly accounted for amongst that. That is apparently nearly 4 times the preorders of GTA:SA.
And of course, there are people who never preordered picking it up too. Most of which i imagine are getting the Live pack.
So, uh... yeah. Bungie > Rockstar.
And of course, there are people who never preordered picking it up too. Most of which i imagine are getting the Live pack.
So, uh... yeah. Bungie > Rockstar.
saurian 11 Nov 2004 20:05
6/6
Easily dude! All it will take is for every Xbox owner to buy, like... four copies each.
Don't you feel like total KNOB when you make stupid comments like that and then get proved wrong??