San Andreas smashes UK first week sales records
Posted by Dice on 03 November 2004 - 22:34 · 10 comments & 3278 views
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#1 Posted by Bhav on 03 Nov 2004 - 22:43
- old...
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#1.1 Posted by i like chips on 03 Nov 2004 - 22:45
- yeah and so are you.
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#2 Posted by Ivand on 04 Nov 2004 - 02:43
- Yay San Andreas!! now we need a pc version!
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#2.1 Posted by SecretAgentMan on 04 Nov 2004 - 08:23
- The smart people will be waiting for the PC version.
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#2.2 Posted by Shycho on 04 Nov 2004 - 23:25
- close but actually the smart people play it now not wait nearly a year just because they have a personal vendetta against the PS2 and anything sony. Anyway i'm back off to play the best game ever, you enjoy Vice city for the PC
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#2.3 Posted by SecretAgentMan on 05 Nov 2004 - 08:14
- I can play that and other games until the GOOD version comes out next year. You are obviously one of the people who are not smart.
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#3 Posted by invaderzim_2004 on 04 Nov 2004 - 06:23
- Rockstar stated mid-next year . They haven't announced a official port just yet (as they have a exclusitivity agreement with Sony which is for for about 6 months or so) -fiscal financial year
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#4 Posted by YaZoR on 04 Nov 2004 - 09:05
- Lol, it'll go platinum by 2 weeks, then it'll be £19.99. WOORAH!
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#5 Posted by forster on 04 Nov 2004 - 09:40
- Yup - everyone I know with a PS2 has it.
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#6 Posted by nw_raptor on 04 Nov 2004 - 11:24
- bring on the PC ver
That figure is more than double that of the previous record holder - San Andreas' predecessor Grand Theft Auto Vice City, which broke sales records two years ago by selling 250,000 units in its first week, and remained the fastest selling title ever until now.
The PlayStation 2 exclusive GTA San Andreas went on sale across Europe on October 29th, and despite fears of a stock shortage, Chart-Track's 6500 strong UK retail panel picked up some 575,156 units. Given that this panel represents around 85 per cent of the total UK market, Chart-Track has extrapolated that around 677,000 units were sold in total across the country.
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In European terms, this figure is likely to be nudging 1.5 million, while US figures could well be in the same ball-park. To sell over three million copies across the world in its first few days on sale would be a truly unprecedented feat for Rockstar, and probably sets a new benchmark for consumer entertainment launches, never mind videogames, with each copy costing consumers an average of UKP 35.45 (according to ChartTrack data).
In gross revenue terms, the game would have generated around UKP 24 million in the UK alone over the weekend, and projected across the world that figure could be as much as UKP 106 million, or put in international currency terms, $195.5 million or 153.97 Euro. Put in context, if a movie were to gross that much at the box office, it would instantly be classed among the all-time greats - that's how big Rockstar's game has become.
Put into further context, ChartTrack figures reveal that only 10 PS2 titles have sold more in their whole lifetimes - two of those being the previous GTA titles, both of which have sold over one and half million copies each. San Andreas now appears to be on track to top them both and go on to become the fastest million seller ever in the UK.