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Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day

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Re: Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day

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Post by InclinedPlane »

forrestthewoods wrote: post #58
DigitalSea wrote: post #10

What is even more impressive about this figure is that it's just XBOX 360 and Playstation 3 sales. GTA V hasn't been announced for PC yet which is a severely underrated market when it comes to games I reckon. If GTA V launched with a PC version I think they would have eclipsed $1 billion in 24 hours, easily, if not 1.1. I played this yesterday (I don't own a console) at a friends house and what they've been able to a…

Assuming every PC copy sold is digital at $60 a pop the 70% publisher cut would be $42. To generate an extra $300,000,000 in revenue on PC it'd have to sell 7 million copies. No game in the history of ever has sold that many copies on day one on PC. And they especially haven't done that when the game is releasing on consoles at the same time. It will however eventually release on PC and generate a nice chunk of chang…

Why are you comparing gross revenue to profit? It would only take 3.3 million pre-sales to make up the $200 million to get to $1 billion/day. Diablo 3 reached that many sales on day 1, for example. Moreover, we're not talking about any random game, we're talking about this very specific game, GTA V, which has smashed existing sales records.

Re: Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day

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Post by robmcm »

yaeger wrote: post #61
DigitalSea wrote: post #10

What is even more impressive about this figure is that it's just XBOX 360 and Playstation 3 sales. GTA V hasn't been announced for PC yet which is a severely underrated market when it comes to games I reckon. If GTA V launched with a PC version I think they would have eclipsed $1 billion in 24 hours, easily, if not 1.1. I played this yesterday (I don't own a console) at a friends house and what they've been able to a…

You can only imagine what that game could look like if it were designed for PC and not decade old consoles with hardware that was mid-range when the consoles came out. It sucks that every major game lately is just made for the lowest common denominator and then if we are lucky, we get a half assed PC port. Dear god what a mess GTA IV was and how many patches it took to actually get it to a workable state. I still wai…

>Dear god what a mess GTA IV was and how many patches it took to actually get it to a workable state.

Could be the reason they don't, but I expect piracy is the main reason it's not on the PC yet.

You do often see tech demos of engines that show of what can be done, but you develop for the market, which is the same for most technology (cough Internet Explorer cough)

Re: Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day

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Post by selectstar »

valryon wrote: post #64
product50 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't know about Rockstar then don't comment. This is a great game and it really appears that the developers have put their everything in building it. Sometimes people want to work hard to make sure their output is a success. It is not always about 40hrs work week. A great company is one which creates a culture to build impressive products and where employees feel motivated to be a part of it. I am not saying…

For Red Dead Redemption, wives of the developers has written several open letters to show the world the horrible condition their husbands were facing. You can easily find this story, like on Gamasutra: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RockstarSpouse/20100107/4032/...

They way they chose to compose that open letter meant I could not take it seriously at all. (And my partner is in employment law so I have an above casual interest in these kind of things in all industries.)

Re: Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day

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Post by robmcm »

mehwoot wrote: post #18
dpiers wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The average salary in the game industry is 84k.

The quoted average salary is not the cost of employing someone though, there are always significant on costs.

Rockstar north is based in Scotland, so it's not going to be that high ;)

Re: Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day

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Post by robmcm »

thejosh wrote: post #17
DigitalSea wrote: post #10

What is even more impressive about this figure is that it's just XBOX 360 and Playstation 3 sales. GTA V hasn't been announced for PC yet which is a severely underrated market when it comes to games I reckon. If GTA V launched with a PC version I think they would have eclipsed $1 billion in 24 hours, easily, if not 1.1. I played this yesterday (I don't own a console) at a friends house and what they've been able to a…

I played it on PS3, the only downside is the FPS drop that occurs when driving at fast speeds... which is a fair payoff for the impressive visuals they have managed to achieve.

I wonder if they will/could just port to PS4 and up the textures, framerate, draw distance etc.

It could be that there is so much PS3 specific tricks in there it just wouldn't work.

Re: Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day

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Post by plq »

I'm a big fan of the series, but I decided to sit this one out until a PS4 / GTA V bundle comes out -- The game doesn't seem to look any better than GTA IV on PS3 and I don't want to feel like I'm playing yet another GTA IV expansion pack for the coming years. (I just recently finished all three GTA IV story lines. I'm not a huge player anymore)

Another thing of note about why GTA IV looks so much better than GTA 3 is that GTAIV uses what's now called Euphoria from Natural Motion: http://www.naturalmotion.com/middleware/euphoria/ Its synthesized animation looks way more natural than the stitching together of hand-made animation and I'm actually surprised that it didn't take the character animation world by storm by now.

Re: Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day

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Post by CWIZO »

jemeshsu wrote: post #43
adamnemecek wrote: post #4

Kind of surprised that marketing cost them more than development ($115m vs $150m).

Watched Riddick in cinema last night and there was an ads for Grand Theft Auto V. It is rare to see computer game ads in theatre.

Here in London they show at least one ad for a game before the movie. London is also littered with billboards for this and other games...

Re: Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day

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Post by spottr »

colmvp wrote: post #11
DigitalSea wrote: post #10

What is even more impressive about this figure is that it's just XBOX 360 and Playstation 3 sales. GTA V hasn't been announced for PC yet which is a severely underrated market when it comes to games I reckon. If GTA V launched with a PC version I think they would have eclipsed $1 billion in 24 hours, easily, if not 1.1. I played this yesterday (I don't own a console) at a friends house and what they've been able to a…

I played this yesterday (I don't own a console) at a friends house and what they've been able to achieve on these consoles is impressive considering these consoles aren't next gen and are resource limited. It seems like that happens at every end of every console's life. Last of Us, BioShock Infinite, and GTA V are three fantastic games to close out the PS3.

Except Gran Turismo 6 (with completely rebuilt graphics and physics) is coming out this year. Metal Gear Solid V & Ground Zeroes are currently in development for the PS3, among other systems. Also we will still be getting multi-platform stuff for some time (Battlefield 4).

So it's too early to "close out the PS3" IMHO.

Re: Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day

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Post by lmm »

colmvp wrote: post #11
DigitalSea wrote: post #10

What is even more impressive about this figure is that it's just XBOX 360 and Playstation 3 sales. GTA V hasn't been announced for PC yet which is a severely underrated market when it comes to games I reckon. If GTA V launched with a PC version I think they would have eclipsed $1 billion in 24 hours, easily, if not 1.1. I played this yesterday (I don't own a console) at a friends house and what they've been able to a…

I played this yesterday (I don't own a console) at a friends house and what they've been able to achieve on these consoles is impressive considering these consoles aren't next gen and are resource limited. It seems like that happens at every end of every console's life. Last of Us, BioShock Infinite, and GTA V are three fantastic games to close out the PS3.

Not just this generation either. I remember being amazed at Perfect Dark and Donkey Kong 64, or, going even further back, Chrono Trigger.
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