Grand Theft Auto IV To Sell 1M More PlayStation 3s Over X360
Michael Pachter is the one person's job I wish I had. Another trivial prediction has come from the Wedbush Morgan analyst, as he believes that Grand Theft Auto IV will help sales of the PlayStation 3 considerably more than sales of the Xbox 360.
See Full Image"I think PS3 'wins' this battle," Pachter told Reuters. He said that if sales of Take-Two's GTA IV come in at the high end of the 9-12.5 million unit estimates during 2008, the game will directly drive sales of two million additional PS3s this year, compared to one million Xbox 360s.
BMO Capital Markets analyst, Edward Williams, believe that this notion only makes sense, because for long now the GTA franchise has been synonymous with the PlayStation name. And so a lot of gamers waited for GTAIV before purchasing a PlayStation 3.
"So many people who owned the PS2 went into PlayStation family because of GTA. The release of GTA IV could expedite their decision to upgrade," he noted.
But it should be noted that the analysts are not stating that the PS3 version will outsell the Xbox 360 version, though. Additionally, Sony also pointed out that the PlayStation 3's line-up of Metal Gear Solid 4, Killzone 2, LittleBigPlanet, and Resistance 2 would gives gamers more AAA games to play after they're done with GTAIV. And that's certainly better than GTAIV downloadable content, which, some critics are worried, is the best Microsoft has to offer for 2008.
Related Game(s): Grand Theft Auto IV
4/25/2008 Arnold Katayev
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Tatsujin
Friday, April 25, 2008 @ 5:26:34 PM
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P.S. Pachter is a smart guy, Ive followed a lot of his predictions and well... they came if not right, then really damn close.
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ArnoldK PSXE
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That's why I'd love his job.
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Tatsujin
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The criticism I've read about him is that he gives extremly broad predictions that almost anyone with gaming knowledge and history could predict.
Hopefully he's right this time.
I don't like him though, he looks crazy shady in that picture.
I heard he's that blurry in person.
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Tatsujin
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Making games sales predictions is like trying to work out how well a movie will do at the box office, no one knows if the movie will flop and no one goes to see it.
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Tatsujin
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P.S. Games and Movie productions are 2 very diffrent things, in terms of predictions. When a movie comes out, you don't usually say, "Oh im gonna enjoy this time over time" it's more like "Oh, looks good, I think ill see it" But when a game is on the shelf or being previewd whatever the case might be, its "Hmm, Am I gonna play this game for long? Do I like games liek this? Is this game worth my money? Do my friends like it?" You know, questioning yourself about things opens up a whole new window of life :)
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Like someone said before with Home, "I better see the face of God" in the DL content for it to be worth 50 million.
I think maybe M$ didn't think they would sell more systems because of GTA4. They just didn't wanna get blown out of the water and let the PS3 catch up even quicker.