Rockstar sells 6 million units of GTA IV in 5 days ($500 Million in Revenue)

[E. J. Rizo]

http://www.vgchartz.com/news/news.php?id=1126

VG Chartz.com, the most comprehensive videogaming charts in the world, has announced that Rockstar sold roughly 6 million copies of Grand Theft Auto IV during the first 5 days after the game’s release. 4 million gamers purchased the game day one.


The game generated an estimated revenue of $390 million, exceeding Halo 3´s $280 million launch week. Worldwide sales split 4:3 in favour of the Xbox 360 while the Playstation 3 version saw a higher attach rate.

America saw sales of more than 3.7 million units during the first week of the game’s release. Europe experienced strong sales, as well – roughly 2.2 million Europeans purchased the game during the same timeframe. (1.25 million on Playstation 3; 0.95 million on Xbox 360)

Grand Theft Auto IV also had a big affect on hardware sales: Playstation 3 sales nearly doubled compared to the week before, while Xbox 360 sales jumped roughly 70%.

Grand Theft Auto IV is considered the most expensive game of all time, with estimated development costs of $100 million. The game is likely to hit the 10 million units sales mark during the next months.

Questions regarding VGchartz or our articles? Contact me: Louie.july@gmx.de
Update: Rockstar today confirmed that 6 million copies were sold in the first 5 days but posted a total revenue figure of $500 million rather than our $390. In hindsight, the game sells for closer to $100 in Europe (when taking the exchange rate into account) and $60 in America with the collectors edition being around half again so our initial per game cost of $65 was pessimistic and total revenue will be more like the $500 million Rockstar reported.

[Nutty]

Smokin' 

[when it rains it pours]

daaaamnnn

BANK!!

[Black_Smoke]

props to rockstar, get all the paper they can, they fuckin deserve it

[big mat]

if more games liike this come out the gaming industry will soon be bigger than the movie industry

[GENERIK]

Smokin' 

that picture made me laugh my ass off, good stuff

[Don Jacob]

well shit they better put together a bad ass mother fuckin' GTA San Andreas Stories then.

[ToOoOoN!!!]

props to rockstar, get all the paper they can, they fuckin deserve it

fucking right! Game Of the Decade!!!

[Halu Sination]

well i guess this puts an end to that gta vs mario kart sales argument lol. wut a charade that was.

[juandoe]

they rock