Carl2291 said:
Barozi said:
Carl2291 said:
Kasz216 said:
Does Take 2 count?
In there recomendation to not sell to EA, they state they've sold 70 million in the GTA franchise up to March 2008.
From 2001 - 2008 they've sold 66 million copies.
That leaves a total of 4 million total, for GTA PS/PC, GTA2 PS/PC,GTA London 1969 PS/PC AND GTA London 1961 PS/PC.
The problem being of course that the PS numbers for GTA 1&2 alone are over 4 million.
http://apps.shareholder.com/sec/viewerContent.aspx?companyid=TTWO&docid=5824614
Unless those 6 pieces of software sold negative amounts... it's pretty obvious the VGchartz numbers are a bit high... and keep in mind this is shipped. Considering europe was more PC based then console based then... it's even generous to say they sold about a million a piece.
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It says "over" 70 Million. Not 70 Million exactly. So it's anywhere from 70-74, probably.
Which probably means that the PC sales for GTA (and the expansions) are tied into the PSone sales, which is like we have the FFVII data.
Which still means, the original top-down GTA's would have sold better than this...
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According to this: http://www.gamershell.com/news_11876.html
There are about 8 million copies shipped for GTA, the mission packs and GTA 2.
Although I think a source from the publisher is more reliable, you have definitely a point.
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Rock* saying that would tie into the 70-74 Million thing i said.
So it is VERY probable that the top-down PSone/PC GTA's did sell much better than Chinatown Wars
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To be honest I didn't even list all the GTA releases.
There was also a PS compilation release, A couple Gameboy releases and a gameboy advance release. The gameboy releases had to do well enough, that they kept releasing them.
Although I think Rockstar was just off on the numbers. T2 would of said 74 million if it was 74 million instead of over 70, Hell they would of said 75 million. (Or at least nearly a 75 million.)
They were fighting a takeover.
