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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: Jome on November 05, 2004, 09:34:36 PM
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Breaking Records Left and Right
Posted by DigitalD at 15:54. Category: General
Following up on San Andreas sales expectations we reported on previously, we now have some hard numbers to finally crunch down on.
San Andreas has broken the first-week sales record for videogames in the UK. San Andreas sold approximately 677,000 copies, Beating the previous record holder, Vice City, which sold 250,000 in its opening week. This information comes from UK research body Chart-Track, who estimates that Rockstar and Take2 have already made Ģ24 million on sales in the UK.
In gross revenue terms, the game would have generated around UKP 24 million in the UK alone over the weekend, and projected across the world that figure could be as much as UKP 106 million, or put in international currency terms, $195.5 million or 153.97 Euro. Put in context, if a movie were to gross that much at the box office, it would instantly be classed among the all-time greats - that's how big Rockstar's game has become.
- GamesIndustry.biz, November
Yahoo reports on videogame rentals for the week from October 26th to October 31st. Apparently San Andreas broke through big time in videogame rentals, collecting $1,627,351 in its first week in rentals only. We have yet to see a press statement for actual sales figures for the US.
"Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" out-rented all other video game titles in its first week of release earning an unprecedented $1.6 million in consumer rental revenue for the week ending October 31, 2004, according to game intelligence from Rentrak's Home Video Essentials(TM).
The Take2 stock numbers are not looking as good as people would guess with these immense sales, though. Take2 (NASDAQ: TTWO) has been trading at a steady $30-34 for a while, yet the stock slumped down to §31 on the eve of San Andreas release, but has since come back to just over $34, and at the time of writing TTWO is valued at $34.61. More info at Yahoo finance.
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They're saying that now, but Halo 2 drops in 4 days. Already has around 2Mil pre-orders.
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No chance in hell that Halo will beat GTA..
That's like saying Joe Budden will outsell Eminem. lol
Dumb ass Microsoft conveniently mentioned 2 millioned pre-orders when it's really just 2 million units SHIPPED to stores.. lmao. :D
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Both of them are a child's piss to the games of yesteryear. You say it broke every sales record there is... did it break this?
30 Million copies sold - Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES
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No chance in hell that Halo will beat GTA..
That's like saying Joe Budden will outsell Eminem. lol
Dumb ass Microsoft conveniently mentioned 2 millioned pre-orders when it's really just 2 million units SHIPPED to stores.. lmao. :D
Watch Halo 2 sales. Halo has like a cult following. Those 24hr Net cafes are built on Halo type games. The review will probably be in Monday's USA Today.
You're too far to get it delivered to your doorstep so here's the site lol www.usatoday.com
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^^ No chance, even the hardcore Halo clanbangers admits it can't compete with GTA.
Both of them are a child's piss to the games of yesteryear. You say it broke every sales record there is... did it break this?
30 Million copies sold - Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES
Hahaha.
For one, your numbers are wrong, Super Mario Bros. 3 sold 17.28M, and that's with a big grain of salt.
How you gonna compare a game that WAS SOLD WITH THE SYSTEM to a stand-alone game.. ??
Sales numbers from that era didn't differentiate between pack-in and regular sales the way they do now.
The 2 latest GTA-games are the 2 top selling games ever when pack-in games isn't counted, like they shouldn't be. (No charts count it)
And the new GTA-SA is on good way to crush the previous GTA-sales.
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^^ No chance, even the hardcore Halo clanbangers admits it can't compete with GTA.
Both of them are a child's piss to the games of yesteryear. You say it broke every sales record there is... did it break this?
30 Million copies sold - Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES
Hahaha.
For one, your numbers are wrong, Super Mario Bros. 3 sold 17.28M, and that's with a big grain of salt.
How you gonna compare a game that WAS SOLD WITH THE SYSTEM to a stand-alone game.. ??
Sales numbers from that era didn't differentiate between pack-in and regular sales the way they do now.
The 2 latest GTA-games are the 2 top selling games ever when pack-in games isn't counted, like they shouldn't be. (No charts count it)
And the new GTA-SA is on good way to crush the previous GTA-sales.
i can never find a site with game sales... i'd like to see what goldeneye on the 64 made because i remember it being the highest selling game 3 years in a row....that game had tremendous staying power
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dats fuckin sick
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^^ No chance, even the hardcore Halo clanbangers admits it can't compete with GTA.
Both of them are a child's piss to the games of yesteryear. You say it broke every sales record there is... did it break this?
30 Million copies sold - Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES
Hahaha.
For one, your numbers are wrong, Super Mario Bros. 3 sold 17.28M, and that's with a big grain of salt.
How you gonna compare a game that WAS SOLD WITH THE SYSTEM to a stand-alone game.. ??
Sales numbers from that era didn't differentiate between pack-in and regular sales the way they do now.
The 2 latest GTA-games are the 2 top selling games ever when pack-in games isn't counted, like they shouldn't be. (No charts count it)
And the new GTA-SA is on good way to crush the previous GTA-sales.
17.8 Million...... in the U.S. It sold 30 million worldwide. My numbers are not wrong; please apologize. Also, Supermario 3, was never included with the system. It's the biggest selling stand alone game, ever. If you want to talk about games included with the system, then lets talk about the original super mario brothers...... which sold 40 Million. Just in America.
Mario 3 wasn't a pack in. If you ever played a fucking nintendo, you should know this.
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BTW, Go Here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros_3
To catch up on what a real sales record is all about. ... and change the title of your post, it most certainly hasn't broken 'every sales record there is'.
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They're saying that now, but Halo 2 drops in 4 days. Already has around 2Mil pre-orders.
Man GTA sold 677,000 copies here in the UK, just think how many it sold in the US in a week, even with a supposeded 2mil pre-orders it probably wouldn't reach what GTA has sold.
And Trauma is right Super Mario Bros 3 wasn't ever packaged with anything, just stand alone, so its sales figures are amazing. Dunno if GTA would ever get anywhere near that.
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you also gotta wait till GTA comes out for the Box and PC
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i think halo 2 is going to sell quite insanely
i had to drive around to 7 stores today just to get a preorder. nobody would take anymore
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i dont see whats so special about halo or halo 2.. i mean muliplayer is fun.. but its no counterstrike..
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i've never played halo..so i can't judge...but it does make me wanna buy an Xbox =/
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i dont see whats so special about halo or halo 2.. i mean muliplayer is fun.. but its no counterstrike..
and whats so special bout GTA? repetative missions, virtual barbie doll, and sub-par graphics.
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i dont see whats so special about halo or halo 2.. i mean muliplayer is fun.. but its no counterstrike..
and whats so special bout GTA? repetative missions, virtual barbie doll, and sub-par graphics.
well if you look at the trends in games....a lot of games are considered GTA clones
while no one considers halo a clone because..... it's not original
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
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originality doesnt make a game good.
and the new GTAs arent original at all lol, just rehashes of the ones before with new cities, and now your character can get fat! :o
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originality doesnt make a game good.
and the new GTAs arent original at all lol, just rehashes of the ones before with new cities, and now your character can get fat! :o
well there's style, there's character customization, car customization, more vehicles, more weapons, the game is 5 times larger, more side games than mario party, bigger variety of missions, swimming...
all halo is going to have is a "new city" and "new weapons and vehicles"
so saying GTA is repetitive when all you do in halo is run and shoot, drive and shoot, or fly and shoot is pretty contridictory
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all that stuff just means more boring shit to do in GTA.
halo is also repetative, but its basically non stop action, amazing graphics, amazing computer ai, and great story. none of that applies to gta.
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all that stuff just means more boring shit to do in GTA.
halo is also repetative, but its basically non stop action, amazing graphics, amazing computer ai, and great story. none of that applies to gta.
GTA has non stop action, get your wanted meter up to 6 stars and the gun fights that ensue make halo look like britney's dance beat
halo does have great graphics when you aren't stuck in a compound running through halls that all look the same for 4 hours
there's nothing innovative about the AI, there's been AI squad tactics since Turok 2...if you want to talk about AI, halo doesn't ahve shit compared to GTA... it's not hard to make everything you see attack you as they do in halo. it is hard to make a living breathing city, where when you walk up to a whore on the street, she mouths off, you hit her with a bat and she can do anything from run away, to fist fight you, to pulling out a weopon....you can walk around town and watch police chases just break out. run into a car on the freeway and you'll see a 8 car pile up with people getting out of the car with bats, fucking up other people... even the rival gang members do what halo does, the duck for cover, some will try to flank you, some shoot while other try and get closer....
story is a rehash...in fact most game stories are rehashs...i can name 20 stories similar to halos
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theres more to making a great AI than having them all attack you lol
but whatever, play gta and have fun with it i guess
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theres more to making a great AI than having them all attack you lol
but whatever, play gta and have fun with it i guess
Fuckin GTA hater stfu, u just can't admit Halo2 wont outsell SA, and that Gta is better on all areas except constant action. Ppl dont buy it to shoot constantlyl monsters like in Halo. ::)
I really wanna see how much Halo2 will sell 1st week compared to SA.
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theres more to making a great AI than having them all attack you lol
but whatever, play gta and have fun with it i guess
Fuckin GTA hater stfu, u just can't admit Halo2 wont outsell SA, and that Gta is better on all areas except constant action. Ppl dont buy it to shoot constantlyl monsters like in Halo. ::)
I really wanna see how much Halo2 will sell 1st week compared to SA.
i guess i should wait a week to buy my copy of Halo 2 then
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theres more to making a great AI than having them all attack you lol
but whatever, play gta and have fun with it i guess
Fuckin GTA hater stfu, u just can't admit Halo2 wont outsell SA, and that Gta is better on all areas except constant action. Ppl dont buy it to shoot constantlyl monsters like in Halo. ::)
I really wanna see how much Halo2 will sell 1st week compared to SA.
i guess i should wait a week to buy my copy of Halo 2 then
;D, if u have SA already, a week is nothing ;)
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theres more to making a great AI than having them all attack you lol
but whatever, play gta and have fun with it i guess
Fuckin GTA hater stfu, u just can't admit Halo2 wont outsell SA, and that Gta is better on all areas except constant action. Ppl dont buy it to shoot constantlyl monsters like in Halo. ::)
I really wanna see how much Halo2 will sell 1st week compared to SA.
i dont give a fuck how much halo 2 will sell lmfao. i dont buy games based on sales. youre saying GTA SA beats halo 2 on graphics and multiplayer gameplay and story? LMAAAAAOOOO
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theres more to making a great AI than having them all attack you lol
but whatever, play gta and have fun with it i guess
Fuckin GTA hater stfu, u just can't admit Halo2 wont outsell SA, and that Gta is better on all areas except constant action. Ppl dont buy it to shoot constantlyl monsters like in Halo. ::)
I really wanna see how much Halo2 will sell 1st week compared to SA.
i dont give a fuck how much halo 2 will sell lmfao. i dont buy games based on sales. youre saying GTA SA beats halo 2 on graphics and multiplayer gameplay and story? LMAAAAAOOOO
GTA beats it on gameplay and story, plus it's better entertainment
and good job throwing multiplayer in there
GTA beats halo in gambling, pimping hos, missions and free roaming gameplay
a few things halo has none of
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plus sounds are better on GTA too
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"gambling, pimping hos, missions and free roaming gameplay"
i guess its a good thing im not impressed with gambling and pimping hos huh
halo doe shave missions, each level is based on missions if i remember correctly (referring to the 1st)
free roaming gameplay automatically makes the game better?
and i can guran-damn-tee gta sa doesnt have better sound, than even the first halo, much less halo 2.
"GTA beats it on gameplay and story, plus it's better entertainment"
depends who you are i guess, i find it boring.
and i threw multiplaye rin there because he said gta beats it in all areas (except constant action) which is clearly wrong.
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"gambling, pimping hos, missions and free roaming gameplay"
i guess its a good thing im not impressed with gambling and pimping hos huh
halo doe shave missions, each level is based on missions if i remember correctly (referring to the 1st)
free roaming gameplay automatically makes the game better?
and i can guran-damn-tee gta sa doesnt have better sound, than even the first halo, much less halo 2.
"GTA beats it on gameplay and story, plus it's better entertainment"
depends who you are i guess, i find it boring.
and i threw multiplaye rin there because he said gta beats it in all areas (except constant action) which is clearly wrong.
of course gambling, pimping hos and the 50 other things you can do in GTA doesn't impress you because you're impressed by shooting the same 5 creatures over and over again for 15 hours...
and if you call the levels in halo "missions" yeah you're right, but they are the most simplistic kind, the game is so narrow it's not even funny
sounds wise i prefer hundreds of hit tracks to songs made on someone's computer... or the voices of well known actors than the voices of nobodies
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man fuck halo dat shit is only good wen u feel liek fuckin around wit aliens and mutiplayer and dats all man if it dont have free roming it aint really shit cuz u have to follow a story line and dont have the fredom to do wat eva u want to
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^^dunno what you said, not even sure if it was in english.....
but dangerfield, i just realized....it doesnt even matter lol so play what you want
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lol, like a bunch of kids.
They're totally different games, u can't even compare the 2. I prefer GTA, but that doesn't mean I can't like Halo. It best played multiplayer, it was orsm to play, but I gotta agree w/ Dangerfield on this one, shooting the same 5 creatures over & over again becomes boring, even if they look orsm. Whereas w/ GTA:SA, the environment is huge, consisting of 3 living cities w/ small towns in b/tween to roam around & do whatever, shiet, I've had the game since it was released & I haven't even unlocked the other cities, lol.
GROVE ST. 4 Life, lol.
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you cant compare the 2 games... gta is just rediculous.. its a gaming revolution.. were as halo 2 is just a dope multiplayer.. and updated from halo
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both are updates, leave it at that. Halo will most likely not outsell GTA SA. I'd pick GTA SA over Halo 2 anyday....and I own a xbox.
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Halo.....
is no counterstrike..
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i still havent bought GTA SA, im so broke.
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Congrats to GTA for breaking the record. It better savor the feeling, because Halo2 will claim that spot on Tuesday.
Jome, you said its 2 million shipped, thats wrong its actually nearly 2 million pre - ordered.
Watch, Halo 2 will sell 2 million plus in its first day of sales. Some of yall have no idea how big this is gonna be. I live in a town of 35,000 people. The EB games here had over 300 pre orders for Halo 2 1 month ago. GTA had 120 when it dropped.
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who cares how many copies a video game sells
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Congrats to GTA for breaking the record. It better savor the feeling, because Halo2 will claim that spot on Tuesday.
Jome, you said its 2 million shipped, thats wrong its actually nearly 2 million pre - ordered.
Watch, Halo 2 will sell 2 million plus in its first day of sales. Some of yall have no idea how big this is gonna be. I live in a town of 35,000 people. The EB games here had over 300 pre orders for Halo 2 1 month ago. GTA had 120 when it dropped.
dream on
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if i do remember correctly the OG nintendo DID come with mario 3 , cuz i have mario 3 and i only remember buying 2 games and getting 2 games for it for christmas
i bought ninja turtles manhatten project, the first ninja turtles game
i got gradius and some dragon game for christmas
when i got my nintendo i remember mario 3 coming with it.
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the only time i play halo is like when im kicking it with my friends and playing in multiplayer..when im chillin with myself I play GTA...mclennon you dont like GTA?
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if those pics are no fakes then at one point they had that bundle... i also canīt remember Mario 3 being bundled... then again.. I got myself that great Action Set with DuckHunt and MArio 1 and the nice red Zapper like 1 or 2 years before that...
(http://www.nescenter.de/features_bundles_nessmb3_1.jpg)
and another one
(http://www.nescenter.de/features_bundles_neschallengeset_3.jpg)
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hahaha, I miss that old system
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if those pics are no fakes then at one point they had that bundle... i also canīt remember Mario 3 being bundled... then again.. I got myself that great Action Set with DuckHunt and MArio 1 and the nice red Zapper like 1 or 2 years before that...
(http://www.nescenter.de/features_bundles_nessmb3_1.jpg)
and another one
(http://www.nescenter.de/features_bundles_neschallengeset_3.jpg)
Props.
Those were the times, I remember skipping SM2, but played SM1 & 3 over and over again.. ;D
Mario 3 wasn't a pack in. If you ever played a fucking nintendo, you should know this.
I guess Trauma's whole argument just got owned..
I knew there was a SM3 pack-in, but couldn't find pics or sources..
So with those 17 millions, they counted both pack-in's & stand alone games sold.
Imagine if PS3 launches with the next-gen GTA.. (Not totally farfetched, since GTA is the biggest booster for PS since Gran Turismo, and Sony already have the exclusive GTA rights..) and say PS3 sells as much as PS2, which is very likely.. then GTA next-gen will have 30 mill.+ sold..
Will that be a far comparison to other games.. ?? Of course not.
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Actually the 17 million was probably game sales alone. Every body owned a Mario 3 and by the time Mario 3 came out at least 40 million owned an NES. However htat doesn't take anything away from GTA's sales. To sell so many copies in today's day is a feat. With pirating and downloading so much more affective and mainstream than it was then. A lot of people would rather not pay 50 to 60 bucks when they could get it for free. Not as many people had Game Doctors and other copying devices for the NES. I had one, but I also bought my share of games, including Mario 3.
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Congrats to GTA for breaking the record. It better savor the feeling, because Halo2 will claim that spot on Tuesday.
Jome, you said its 2 million shipped, thats wrong its actually nearly 2 million pre - ordered.
Watch, Halo 2 will sell 2 million plus in its first day of sales. Some of yall have no idea how big this is gonna be. I live in a town of 35,000 people. The EB games here had over 300 pre orders for Halo 2 1 month ago. GTA had 120 when it dropped.
dream on
dream on what? You don't think Halo 2 is gonna top GTA? what fucking rock are you living under? :tosser:
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dream on what? You don't think Halo 2 is gonna top GTA? what fucking rock are you living under? :tosser:
How could it POSSIBLY do that.. ?? :tosser:
I don't think that Halo2 will be close to beating GTA PS2 sales, and it's not even gonna be funny for Halo2 when GTA drops for PC & X-Box.
Edit:
Gamesindustry.biz (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=5396) knows their biz:
Next week's chart sees the arrival of Halo 2 on Xbox, with Microsoft undoubtedly hoping that San Andreas' retail dominance will have died down sufficiently to give them at least a week at number one
:D
Also:
The Rockstar juggernaut rolls onwards, and there's a strong debut for Football Manager 2005 too
Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has smashed yet more UK sales records, selling over a million units in just nine days - making it into the fastest selling game, the fastest to hit a million units, and the fourth biggest selling PS2 title ever.
The game topped the UK charts yet again this week, selling more in its second week on sale than its predecessor, Grand Theft Auto Vice City, managed in its release week, and setting it well on the way to becoming the nation's best selling game ever.
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Wasn't GTA:SA the last PS2 exclusive from the series?
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HALO 2 - 2.4 MILLION UNITS SOLD IN ONE DAY!!!
All of you doubters can officially suck a dick. btw, someone posted a thread with all details.
i just wanted to say... :nahnah:
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like Tom said, who gives a fuck how much a game sells...