You no doubt saw the news yesterday — 6 million GTA IVs sold in a week, quite the achievement, indeed. Now, Microsoft’s got some of its own data to share. Below you’ll find direct verbatim, straight from Microsoft’s press release.
Sales
- Actual MS sales data from last week shows Xbox 360 console sales at retail went up 54% week-over-week as a result of GTA’s success
- According to retailers more than 60% of all GTA games sold in the first week were the Xbox 360 version
- Retailers are telling us that the game is attaching strongly to new console sales, with roughly 40% of new consoles selling with a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV
Xbox Live Stats
- In the first week, more than 2.3 million people played Grand Theft Auto IV on Xbox LIVE
- GTA IV is now the number one played game on Xbox LIVE
- Over the weekend, we saw the Xbox LIVE service reach 1 million concurrent users
- Gamers have unlocked more than 12 million achievements worth over 100 million gamerscore points in GTA
- Grand Theft Auto IV set a new record for time played, with the average gamer spending more than four hours playing the game on LIVE in the first week alone
I bet Microsoft is glad to see the Xbox 360 version outperform the PS3 version. However, this was kind of expected, as the 360 userbase is bigger than the PS3 one.
