I think Grand Theft Auto IV will sell over 11 million worldwide this year.

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SilentWolf said:

darthdevidem01 said:
@parokki

how can you say that

COD4 reached 7 million 2 consoles COMBINED

YOU excpect GTA IV to do less??

Well, I think that this GTA IV will show us the actual demographics of the series.  I have personally been wondering just who exactly buys it. 

To get to the point, I also think that the other GTA games sold mostly to casuals.  If this is true, and a majority of PS3/360 owners are core gamers, then we can probably assume that the sales of GTA IV will be quite a bit lower than the ones before it.

Now, having said that, I still think that GTA IV has a good chance of breaking 10 million units over its life if it has good legs. 

 

Just who buys GTA? In my experience working at Gamestop for over a year and a half, you have two types of people;

1) The Tweener. About 75% of the people who buy the GTA games are parents who's 11-12 year old kid begs and pleads for them to buy them the "awesome game their friend told them about". Parents, not knowing anything about video games (and despite the fact we tell them it's rated M for sex, violence, etc), buy it for them.

2) The "Homie". This particular archetype is anywhere from 17-25, male, and even if they're old enough to to have graduated college, they're still living with their mom. Will most likely walk in the store in a wife beater with a real shirt hanging over their shoulder and a slight lean from when they got shot protectin' their turf in the 'hood'. G.

And this, in my (anecdotal) experience, is who buys GTA.