Parokki said:
What does this mean exactly? I don't understand how this 360 stuff works. |
Mygamercard.net is the leading Xbox 360 website for tracking Gamercard information. It's a huge help in establishing my XBLA Sales Chart numbers I put out every week.
More than that, they track 2 MILLION Xbox 360 Players/Gamercards. Their servers update every hour, to show how many people (that week) have been on Xbox Live, and have played a given game. This is very important, as it shows what the most "popular" game is for that week.
If you cross-index top titles, you've always been able to measure how quickly-selling a game has been. Halo 3 was #1 on MGC on Monday afternoon - taking every other game out. Obviously, we all know, Halo 3 sold about 3.3m copies that week. But on MGC, we were able to see a very good representation of Halo 3 versus any other game.
Fast forward to December - COD4 overtook Halo 3 on a weekly basis. About 3 weeks later, Microsoft confirmed that COD4 had indeed overtaken H3 in terms of how many people play in online per day.
MGC isn't 100% perfect with it's accuracy. It usually gives a bit of advantage to new games, as it's 2m userbase is mostly "hardcore" or "core". However, when you compile various numbers from there, you get the understanding that GTAIV is huge. Taking down Halo 3 so quickly on the MGC Leaderboard list is a huge feat - no game has beaten H3 since it launched except for COD4. And since December, COD4 and H3 have been in a virtual #1 and #2 lock no matter what game was released (million selling Rainbow Six Vegas 2 never got anywhere near the numbers that H3 and COD4 have posted on MGC. Never.)
So again, you can just see what it's doing, and easily establish that, as of right now, GTAIV is going to easily out-preform COD4 in terms of units sold, and looks like it could rival Halo 3.
