Grand Theft Auto IV sales drop fails to shake title's pole position
GTA IV remained the UK's best-selling videogame during its second week on shop shelves, despite the number of copies shifted in Blighty falling by more than 50 per cent.
According to Chart-Track data, the videogame’s UK sales declined by 77 per cent for the week ended 10 May. But the must-have title still managed to hold onto …
A 77% drop presumably equates to real sales of 213,000 (rounding to the nearest thousand like the the others obviously have been).
But once you take out the pre-orders and stampede of day one, they only sold 295,000 in the rest of that first week. That's not a bad drop-off at all, then. It's still not that simple to find stock on shelves; it was sold out on 360 everywhere I went last weekend.
Not that I can justify buying it, having just got a Wii and WiiFit instead, but I'd like to play it at some point.
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Grand Theft Auto IV sales drop fails to shake title's pole position
GTA IV remained the UK's best-selling videogame during its second week on shop shelves, despite the number of copies shifted in Blighty falling by more than 50 per cent. According to Chart-Track data, the videogame’s UK sales declined by 77 per cent for the week ended 10 May. But the must-have title still managed to hold onto …
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Posted Tuesday 13th May 2008 15:36 GMT
Iain
Numbers time... #
631,000 sales on day 1.
926,000 for the whole first week.
A 77% drop presumably equates to real sales of 213,000 (rounding to the nearest thousand like the the others obviously have been).
But once you take out the pre-orders and stampede of day one, they only sold 295,000 in the rest of that first week. That's not a bad drop-off at all, then. It's still not that simple to find stock on shelves; it was sold out on 360 everywhere I went last weekend.
Not that I can justify buying it, having just got a Wii and WiiFit instead, but I'd like to play it at some point.
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