GTA IV Tops Xbox Live

Dark Drakan · 05-04-2008, 12:12 PM

We all saw this one coming as soon as the details came out about online play on GTA IV. Though i havent yet tried the online myself yet.

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Originally Posted by CVG

The Grand Theft Auto IV craze has hit Xbox Live, as the game has proven more popular on the service than former top dogs Call of Duty 4 and Halo 3, Microsoft told Next-Gen.

Activision's Call of Duty 4 and Microsoft's Halo 3 have been trading the first and second slots on Microsoft's Xbox Live activity chart for the past few months.

But Aaron Greenberg, director of product management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, said that GTA IV, which just released on Tuesday, is the new king of the hill on Xbox Live.

"We had roughly 1 million users in the first 24 hours [of GTA IV's release] go online with the game on Xbox Live," said Greenberg.

The online attraction of GTA IV is staggering, considering that until now, GTA has always been focused on the single player, offline experience.

"It's been the number one game on Xbox Live since its launch, so it's knocked off Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4," said Greenberg. "At launch, our data shows that out of all of our members on Live, the majority of them were playing GTA IV.

"With a community of over 10 million members, that's pretty rare."

Microsoft measures the number of unique users per game on Xbox Live. Aside from multiplayer online sessions, single-player sessions are also taken into account in the Live activity rankings if the console is connected to the service.

Greenberg also said that 2 million GTA IV achievements were unlocked in the first 24 hours of the game's release. In addition, over 15 million Gamerscore points were added to users' accounts in the first day.

1.5 million cross-game invites also occurred during that period.

Microsoft has been keen to leverage GTA IV's strong online multiplayer component by including a one-month Xbox Live gold subscription with all GTA IV launch copies. The firm hopes the game will drive Xbox Live adoption. Gold subscriptions cost $50 for a full year.

"Our teams have been doing a lot of work in advance of this game, in fact, months. The operations team has been working on scaling our infrastructure around building and increasing our server capacities," he added.

projectego · 05-04-2008, 05:35 PM

Can't believe that Call of Duty 4 has finally been overthrown!

But, for how long..?

Dark Drakan · 05-04-2008, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by projectego

Can't believe that Call of Duty 4 has finally been overthrown!

But, for how long..?

Im guessing that COD 4 and GTA IV will be switching places quite a bit over the next few months. GTA IV is the new game and a new concept for online so it will be ontop for a while, but ive seen people still playing COD 4 online on my friends lists.

Tom of Blades · 05-04-2008, 06:15 PM

The creators of Rockstar Games are British. Makes you so proud.

Amanda · 05-05-2008, 11:20 PM

Personally, I enjoy COD4 online more than GTA. All of my friends have been playing GTA though so it leads me to playing that online instead.

Dark Drakan · 05-05-2008, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Amanda

Personally, I enjoy COD4 online more than GTA. All of my friends have been playing GTA though so it leads me to playing that online instead.

Ive seen a lot of my friends back playing COD 4 again already. I havent played the online for GTA IV still yet, still doing the missions and such. I saw the invite you sent me appear just as i was turning the console off, sorry about that.

Triz · 05-06-2008, 12:10 AM

Oh, its really that good???!!! I want more opinions on this game.

poopgod350 · 05-06-2008, 03:25 AM

gta 4 is awesome

Dark Drakan · 05-06-2008, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Triz

Oh, its really that good???!!! I want more opinions on this game.

Yeah it really is that good.

Angel · 05-06-2008, 10:42 AM

OURS HAS JUST ARRIVED NOW!!!!

See ya!

Dark Drakan · 05-06-2008, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Angel

OURS HAS JUST ARRIVED NOW!!!!

See ya!

See you in a month or 2 then.

Gikoku · 05-06-2008, 03:54 PM

What can I say, the online is actually pretty awesome. Lots of funny moments and fun in multi-player mode,

looking forward to playing against you again, Andy.

xSiLeNtxD34tHx · 05-06-2008, 10:49 PM

GTA IV is really fun, but I see CoD 4 coming back in the near future.

Angel · 05-07-2008, 01:51 PM

Quite a few people I know have switched back to COD 4 for now...

Orpheus Lupus · 05-07-2008, 07:49 PM

Oddly enough, I don't know anyone that plays either.

Weird.