I wish GTA 4 was exclusive to the PS3. I wonder how much first day sales will be for both consoles.

And out of that list only PES2008, FIFA08 and DMC4 ended up very slightly above 360 version for Worldwide. The rest was 360 > PS3 worldwide when you factor in NA. And you think that GTA4 will be 1.5:1 for PS3:360 because of this reasoning? OK I will remember that.

@solojohlo

Because this is news of the 360 doing better. When this is the case, all numbers are 100% fact.

Now, had it said that the PS3 version was ahead in preorders, then we'd have another GT5P situation

@solojohlo BMaker11

First of all the pre-order data is reported from VGChartz people.

Secondly, the absolute amount does not matter. The thing that everyone is debating here is how 360 and PS3 sales will differ. So if this was all retailer pre-orders, this does not change the 360:PS3 ratio.

Interesting. Good attach rate for PS3. This is important as it shows GTA 4 is an important game for Sony buyers. If it encourages PS2 GTA fans to upgrade then it could be very good for Sony. If these people were going to upgrade to a 360 i think they would have done it by now as it is cheaper in the UK. The fact that the PS3 is outselling the 360 with a higher price does suggest that PS3 is Europe's choice. (Europe only)

Ok. So the Xbox 360 can be known as "the shooter box", and cater to gamers, even in Europe, that prefer shooters, then when a multiplatform shooter-esque game comes out, that the 360's userbase is suddenly NOT going to buy the game?

Right now the X360 still leads in userbase in Europe, and still caters to the "hardcore western crowd" yet when a game comes out that caters to that audience, in spades, that it suddenly won't do very well?

Lets take a history lesson of shooters in Europe, shall we?

I'll gladly give you that PES, FIFA, and NFS: PS sold better on the Playstation 3, but may I ask: What kind of gamer is going to buy GTAIV? Racer guy? Soccer fan? RPG Gamer? Shoot-em-up Gamer? Chances are, the last one will buy the most. Not that the others won't buy, but I still think GTAIV, although will break boundaries with the market it sells to, does still favor a competitive race between the PS3 and the 360. I see sales going in the 360's favor in the first 1-3 weeks, then shifting to the PS3, eventually allowing the PS3 to overtake the 360's LTD European sales in a few months.

Holy crap stickball what are you thinking?

That's ridiculous. Not the percentages, but a more realistic number is 5.5 million for 360 and 4.5 million for PS3. Lifetime worldwide. Seriously I can't believe your prediction. 15 million is overly hopeful, 20 million is just insane.

@EaglesEye379: Maybe I should stated it clearer but my whole post was for Others and so was the last statement.

@mrstickball: I don't really get where you've got the idea to compare GTA4 to shooters. As far as I know it's not one.
When I made my list I tried to be as honest as I can. I took biggest games released in last couple of months only excluded those that have very few weeks to sell (and thus their PS3/X360 ratio can change more than for older games, for example I think that AoT will end up selling more units on PS3 eventually). But I can agree on Vegas 2 becouse PS3 version won't catch X360 counterpart.
You on the other hand chose 4 recently released games (for 3 of them PS3 may wind up selling better) with 2 having meaningless (very low) sales.

I don't agree with your last thought. What I wanted to show is that generally PS3 games sells better with exception for only shooters and Guitar Hero 3. I could also ask you if GH fans will go and buy GTA4? Or maybe PS3 action-games fans (DMC4, AC) will buy more? There is quite a lot driving in GTA so I think that racing fans should actually hop on board too. RPG fans? Are there than many of them among Europe PS3 owners? This of course is matter of opinions. You can't really prove me that shooters-oriented userbase will be more fit for GTA and I can't prove you that racing-oriented userbase will be better (actually I'm even not saying that but neither I am convinced by your arguments).

 And most probably won't.  The vast majority of those 100+ million were casuals.  I think the hardcore fanbase, for the most part, has already upgraded, and are the people who can't stop raving about upcoming Ps3 releases.  Most people (even PS2) owners have far less Sony loyalty than you do, and will include other factors in their decision.  Price is a big one, and even other games as you mentioned.  However, you forget that the 360 also has its fair share of quality titles to be released this year, plus an immense library of quality games people can play now.  

 Both consoles will see a hardware boost, and the PS3's may even be larger, but it won't be nearly as big of a difference as you'd like to believe.

 Naz GTA:SA has sold over 21.5milllion units since launch to retail.  The game sold 1.5mil copies over the last 8months alone according to sales listed on wiki having links back to Take-two reports.