| MontanaHatchet said: So when Grand Theft Auto III launched, the PS2 userbase was 30 million? Do I really have to check figures for that? And stop being so aggressive. Damn. I might just have to call you unreasonable and ridiculous if you get any more aggressive. Oh wait... |
GTAIII launched on the PS2 with a userbase of ~22 million, and within 6 months of the release of GTAIII was dropped to $199. It's not some great mystical mystery that each GTA outsold the previous one. It's because the consoles were progressively cheaper and had higher userbases.
The only way GTAIV will break 12 million on the consoles (not counting PC) is if there is no other GTA released this generation, and if you have paid any attention at all to Take 2's financials you know that's not going to be the case.
Edit: Also people remember the sandbox genre is much more contested than it used to be. With games like Crackdown, InFamous, APB, and Prototype on the way, the GTA franchise isn't going to get the free ride it used to get. We've already seen with CoD4 and Halo 3 that a less popular game can surpass an established franchise with high-quality and good word of mouth.
