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Gaming - The GTA effect - View Post

HappySqurriel said:

People who buy an XBox 360 for Halo 3 this year will be likely to pick up a copy of GTA 4, at the same time people who buy and XBox 360 for GTA 4 will also be likely to pick up a copy of Halo 3, and there will also be people who will buy an XBox 360 simply because both games are available for it.


People who will buy a PS3 next year for Gran Turismo 5 will be likely to pick up a PS3 and GTAIV this year, at the same time people who buy a PS3 for GTAIV will also be likely to pick up a copy of GT5, and there will also be people who will buy a PS3 simply because both games are gonna be available for it.

Point of view is everything!

 on PS2

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Take 2 0.41 7.89 6.58 14.88
Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec Sony 1.89 7.11 5.84 14.84

just to show common interest ;)

on Xbox

Halo 2 Microsoft 0.11 6.39 1.67 8.17

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Take 2 0.00 1.26 0.67 1.93

I know market saturation, etc, plays a factor, but GT5 is a driving force and if someone knows that want it, but also wants GTAIV they could easily accelerate their purchase.