Sales != Earnings...
But they directly correlate.
Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day
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#133What 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…
News flash , AAA companies don't like to do PC releases because of all the piracy. Hell Let me be honest , every GTA games i had played till San Andreas on the PC was a cracked version. It wasn't that i wanted to get a crack , but the thing was that there was no other option available where i live.
> It wasn't that i wanted to get a crack , but the thing was that there was no other option available where i live.
Which brings us back to: Piracy is a market failure, not a cultural failure.
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#134One wonders, pundits say mobile is the new hotness in gaming and console are slowly becoming obsolete. Does that mean games as immersive and expansive as GTA5 will cease to exist in a few years?
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fact that they're not represented in this letter doesn't mean they don't have these complains. They may not have voiced them, or voiced them privately or elsewhere. If I write a blog post about how I feel I'm being exploited by my employer, that doesn't necessarily mean my colleagues don't feel the same.
It is possible, but this looks like it was written on behalf of a large group of people and it seems strange to sign it in such a gender specific way.
It also isnt strange if it is literally the wives of people who did it, those who are waifuless did not have a wife participate in the document.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
True. Best example that comes to mind in recent memory for me is Resident Evil 4 on gamecube - nobody thought the GC could do that.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
News flash , AAA companies don't like to do PC releases because of all the piracy. Hell Let me be honest , every GTA games i had played till San Andreas on the PC was a cracked version. It wasn't that i wanted to get a crack , but the thing was that there was no other option available where i live.
> It wasn't that i wanted to get a crack , but the thing was that there was no other option available where i live. Which brings us back to: Piracy is a market failure, not a cultural failure.
Theft is a market failure, not a cultural failure.
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#138One wonders, pundits say mobile is the new hotness in gaming and console are slowly becoming obsolete. Does that mean games as immersive and expansive as GTA5 will cease to exist in a few years?
No way.
There is only so much you can do on a small screen.
The form factor is well suited for a certain type of game.
It also limits the social aspect of gaming.
Expansive, visually stunning games built to be played on a large screen with other people in the room or playing multiplayer will be around for a very long time.
Mobile games have their place, but they are competing for an orthogonal piece of consumer time.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This is odd, as I haven't found this on the xbox 360 at all, and I was under the impression that the ps3 was more powerful.
The question of which is more powerful is a difficult one if you get down to the nitty-gritty... but I'd have to say the best snap answer is that in general, the XBox 360 actually has a narrow advantage in most ways. The PS3 has a particular advantage in a certain type of computation, but if you can't make maximal use of that for some reason, the XBox 360 wins.
The idea that the PS3 has some sort of huge advantage is mostly Sony propaganda, and people who don't get that "Cell" doesn't mean something magic that makes everything faster, it means something more like "overoptimized for a particular use case" that only makes certain very narrow tasks faster.
Now I can finally justify this point I've made before with this: There is a reason the PS4 is fleeing the Cell architecture just as fast as its metaphorical feet can take it. If companies, like politicians, weren't obligated to put on a public facade that says they never make mistakes, they would admit that it was an error and never really panned out the way they hoped (to say nothing of what they claimed!). As it is, if you read in between the lines a bit in this presentation, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHXrBnipHyA , the PS4 lead came about as close as he politically could to admitting it. (Props to him. The PS4 is looking really solid to me, and I think that is essentially 100% because of this guy.)
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
No game in the history of ever has sold that many copies on day one on PC. No game in the history of ever has sold as many copies on Xbox 360 or PS3 as GTA V just has either, no? ;-) That said, I think I agree with the inferred point that simultaneous PC release wouldn't have had a huge impact on revenue.
> No game in the history of ever has sold as many copies on Xbox 360 or PS3 as GTA V just has either, no? ;-)
Several blockbusters, such as Call of Duty, have sold more on consoles than GTA V currently has, just not on day 1.