[Kave]

Can't wait for GTAIV, gonna be a hell of a game. GTA Sniping from the top of buildings.. Always fun

[Dark Drakan]

Originally Posted by Tsuyu

Balkan Peace Keeping Force

Also the Central Balkan Region is located around Croatia/Hungary/Romania/Serbia/Albania/Greece and Bulgaria (along with a couple more). So hes more likely Serbian than Russian but definitely not from the Middle East.

[Dark Drakan]

Take Two boss still thinks that with all this record breaking sales talk people are underestimating how much it will sell.

Originally Posted by CVG

Take-Two boss Feder was bullish about GTA IV's prospects on Monday, telling Reuters that sales of the game would exceed Wall Street expectations.

"Our expectations are very high, higher than analysts give the game credit for. All the analysts had a [sales] number, give or take, and I think we will be on the upside of that rather than the downside."

GTA IV has been tipped to generate $400 million in first week sales, smashing the $300 million opening week record set by Halo 3 last year.
Prominent videogame analysts like Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter and Janco Partners' Mike Hickey have said that they expect the game to shift around six million units in its first week on sale.

On Monday Pachter told the Associated Press, "The addressable market at launch is about 24 million consoles.

"So how many will sell in the first week or month or few months? Nine million. That's the number. That's about a 35 percent attach rate. By year's end, it'll be somewhere between 11 and 13 million because more consoles will be sold before the holidays."

Many stores worldwide opened their doors at midnight for the game's launch. Specialist US retailer GameStop opened thousands of branches while UK-based Game opened over 260 stores.
Customers who hadn't pre-ordered a copy of the game were warned that it would be difficult to secure one during the midnight launch due to high demand.

The title has been receiving universal critical acclaim from the gaming press - it currently has an average score of 99 percent on review aggregator Metacritic.

[Darg]

I personally believe it will win over Halo 3. Why? Tons of reasons- more open gameplay, a stolen truck-load of features and (drumroll) more armed robbery than one insane gamer needs. Nothing against Halo, but GTA has a huge fanbase and can easily rise to the challenge of people making uber-games as of late.

[Dark Drakan]

Originally Posted by Darg

I personally believe it will win over Halo 3. Why? Tons of reasons- more open gameplay, a stolen truck-load of features and (drumroll) more armed robbery than one insane gamer needs. Nothing against Halo, but GTA has a huge fanbase and can easily rise to the challenge of people making uber-games as of late.

Also the fact that i mentioned with it being on multiple platforms helps double sales easily, plus the GTA fan following has existed since 1997 .