The next GTA will sell better when it's on the Wii.

Blame it on EB and Gamestop for recycling games.

Haha. The game has sold better than any other game this gen. Of course TT is disappointed. Where did they say that btw?

Actually, I'm starting to wonder exactly how many sales EB and GS siphon from publisher/developers through recycling traded in new releases.

When you think about it, both companies are really only leaching revenue off the industry considering that the only benefit their trade in service provides is a $5 discount on new releases (typically $55 for a used copy of a new hit game) to the consumer, and a home for old, unused collections/games bought for a few dollars (in credit) a piece.

Maybe someone who's worked for either could figure out a rough estimate, based upon number of retail outlets, plus the average number of used copies of hit new releases over say the first 2 months of a new release.

What did they expect? With the attach rate it has its pretty much doing as well as it could have. Nevertheless it'll get a nice christmas boost, plus there's still the pc release and the japanese releases. Plus the dlc on top of that. So they can still make a lot of money from gtaIV.

Or they could remake this game for the Wii. Or port the III, VC, SA arc.

Bully sold over half as well on the Wii as on the 360. So they would have another 2-3 million sales easily of IV, and about the same if they port the PS2 games.

^ Theres an idea.

 VGChartz has sales as 10.3 Millions, as a mod one would at least expect from you to trust the site..........

Take Two had a press release recently where they specifically mentionned that 10 millions copies where in households too now ( NOT retailers, HOUSEHOLDS).

1. Gamefly, Gamespot, and Ebay are a lot more popular since the last GTA game.

2. The userbase is much smaller.

3. The game and hardware are more expensive.

I think those three things might be reasons why the game could never sell as much as it woulda 5 years ago on the PS2/Xbox.

The answer would be to dumb it down and port it to the Wii. All this "that game can't be done on the XXX console" is just fanboy jibberish designed to make them feel better about their "special" consoles. It's a videogame. Make it work. Port it to DS for god sakes. You'll make a mint.

This is what a lot of people were saying before the game launched. It's going to sell well, but those 15M+ expectations are just plain ridiculous. It's not like it was released on a system as strong as the PS2 or Wii after all. =P