Analyst: GTA IV may sell 5.8 mln week one

[Legend11]

NJ5 said:

Legend11 said:

NJ5 said:

Legend11 said:
He's actually predicting sales to consumers. The $360 million he has mentioned before* and the $110 million he mentioned is for the sales revenue generated for GameStop (somewhere between 1.222 million and 1.833 million units sold depending on the sales distribution of regular and special edition SKUs).

When he originally made the prediction he expected around a 25% attachment rate. But considering the combined size of the 360/PS3 installed base by the time GTAIV launches the 5.8 million would be around 19-20% attachment rate.

*source:
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9511&Itemid=2

Not if he's talking about America only... See my post above.

 

No he's talking WW numbers. He mentions Halo 3's WW first week numbers and attachment when he is comparing his expected GTAIV's first week numbers and attachment rate. He talks about a 25% attachment rate (in the link I provided) which makes no sense if he just meant North America (there simply aren't that many 360/PS3 consoles in North America).

Sorry, I hadn't read the link. But now that I have, I'm even more confused...

Going by vgchartz data (which should be pretty correct for Halo 3's launch, there was a lot of data about that), Halo 3 had a 37% first week attach rate in America, and 31.6% worldwide.

The link talks about Halo 3 having a 50% attach rate... Do we have another case of a confused analyst here? He seems to be mixing up first week sales with LTD attach rates, it doesn't work.

 

 Yeah you're right, his numbers don't make sense the way he's talking about them.