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kingofwale on 29 April 2008
BKK2 said:
kingofwale said:
BKK2 said:
That Canadian store received a little more on 360 than on PS3, I would have expected 360 version to ship quite a bit more than PS3 version.

why? you work at a Canadian store?


Ha! I'm not even Canadian. My expectation for stores ordering significantly more 360 versions than PS3 versions was based on Canada having twice as many 360s as PS3s.


 leave that to people who actually see the orders themselves, please.



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BKK2 on 29 April 2008
kingofwale said:
BKK2 said:
kingofwale said:
BKK2 said:
That Canadian store received a little more on 360 than on PS3, I would have expected 360 version to ship quite a bit more than PS3 version.

why? you work at a Canadian store?


Ha! I'm not even Canadian. My expectation for stores ordering significantly more 360 versions than PS3 versions was based on Canada having twice as many 360s as PS3s.


leave that to people who actually see the orders themselves, please.


I think you misunderstand. I was replying to a report which said the store had received a total of 1000 units, with a little more 360 versions than PS3 versions. I'm a bit confused by your post, though. What should I leave to people who actually see the orders?

"We're getting close to 1,000 copies of the game, a little bit more Xbox 360 copies than PlayStation 3 copies," said Future Shop entertainment co-ordinator Matthew Nash. "People are really excited about GTA, it's going to be a huge release."



taomaster06 on 29 April 2008

i can't wait to see how much first week sales are going to be



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Square07 on 29 April 2008
makingmusic476 said:
As many of you know, I recently got a job at GameStop. I'm currently training at the location on West Esplanade Ave, in Kenner, Louisiana (part of the Greater New Orleans Area).

A tad off topic but:

You live in New Orleans!? Do you remember the radio station 'Mix 104.1'; what happened to it? i lived in Mandeville b/w 1996-97 and it was and still is my favorite radio station. I moved to West Texas in 1997 and could never find a top 40 station as good as that one ever again. The last I heard the station was gone... so what became of it? How much longer did it last? I wish i could find some info (or song playlist) somewhere about that station. I have alotta fond memories from living in LA back then.

Man I've always wished I could go back and listen to it again from the late-90s...  

Anyone else remember 'Mix 104.1'?



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hunter_alien on 29 April 2008

Wow the sales ratio is pretty good for the PS3 ... but I was expecting that you will sell more copys :?



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Faxanadu on 29 April 2008
outlawauron said:
@ Fax

Huh? I didn't expect that from you. Be kind to BKK, he is by far is best member to find sales info.

No worries, I think we just went down a wrong path over nothing, really. Sorry if it was offensive, but it seems like it wasnt too big of a deal.

OT: The lines look quite good. Really interested about final numbers. I mean, this and next week will be even more fun than X-mas, what with GTA, MK, Fit battling for insane sales. With GTA obviously killing every other game in 1st week.



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BKK2 on 29 April 2008

It seems that a lot of stores in the UK will be sold out today, I'm wondering how much this will affect PS3 hardware sales. People planning on buying a 360 + GTA may get the PS3 GTA bundle instead if the stores are sold out of stand alone copies.



MANUELF on 29 April 2008

--OkeyDokey-- said:

Shame on you! 10 minutes of GTA IV is more fun than infinity billion hours of MK Wii.


I disagree with you, GTA never are fun.



konnichiwa on 29 April 2008
RiCo-G said:

I'm from Belgium, Europe. We also had nightopenings here with most popular game shops.

I talked to some shop owners:

Game Mania (Antwerpen): 134 PS3 - 68 XBOX360
small shop: GameZone (Extrazonee, shopping center): 38 PS3 - 8 X360

Also most shops are SOLD out on PS3 version while X360 is still sitting in stock. Seems that in Europe PS3 will sell 2:1 vs 360.

 I was there =p.  Pretty impressive numbers more than I thought when I watched the crowd yesterday I thought there were only 50-100 of persons.






makingmusic476 on 29 April 2008
Square07 said:
makingmusic476 said:
As many of you know, I recently got a job at GameStop. I'm currently training at the location on West Esplanade Ave, in Kenner, Louisiana (part of the Greater New Orleans Area).

A tad off topic but:

You live in New Orleans!? Do you remember the radio station 'Mix 104.1'; what happened to it? i lived in Mandeville b/w 1996-97 and it was and still is my favorite radio station. I moved to West Texas in 1997 and could never find a top 40 station as good as that one ever again. The last I heard the station was gone... so what became of it? How much longer did it last? I wish i could find some info (or song playlist) somewhere about that station. I have alotta fond memories from living in LA back then.

Man I've always wished I could go back and listen to it again from the late-90s...

Anyone else remember 'Mix 104.1'?


104.1 went under a while ago.  After the storm 106.7 turned into "New Rockin' Country" with all the same people from "The End", so a new 104.1 arose to take 106.7's place as the new rock station.