UK GTAIV first week sales: 926,000 copies

by Richard Mitchell { May 7th 2008 at 12:30PM }

Hey, remember those ridiculously high Grand Theft Auto IV sales estimates Chart-Track provided for the UK? It looks like they weren't ridiculously high enough, as the final numbers have now been released. Sales for the first week of GTAIV availability in the UK reached a whopping 926,000 copies (approximately) with 631,000 being sold on the first day, handily topping the original day one estimate of 609,000. Of the 926,000 copies sold during the first week, 514,000 were for Xbox 360 with the remaining 413,000 going to the Playstation 3.

The game also managed to drive console sales, raising Xbox 360 sales by 125 percent and PS3 sales by 127 percent from the previous week. Perhaps most impressive of all, in its first week of sales GTAIV has already surpassed all but the top three UK titles of 2007 (FIFA 08, Brain Training, and Call of Duty 4). Just to clarify, that's one week sales versus total sales for 2007. One last statistic: GTAIV is now the record holder for one week sales for a multiplatform game in the UK.

Yow.

[Via Joystiq]

Note: You may have noticed that 413,000 and 514,000 don't add up to 926,000. We're guessing that the numbers are the result of rounding one way or another.

Tags: business, grand-theft-auto-4, grand-theft-auto-iv, gta, gta4, gtaiv, rockstar, take-two

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

ryanp @ May 7th 2008 12:38PM

I think the numbers don't add up because they're on the metric system...it's all liters, and meters, and townes and colours...

joey @ May 7th 2008 12:51PM

At least we've been freed from British Spelling for more than 200 years.

Dale @ May 7th 2008 12:51PM

Litres, metres.

And using metric makes the numbers more precise - quarts and cups and pounds and ounces and all these other units Americans love so much are olde worlde silly measurements! :D

bigmac375 @ May 7th 2008 5:46PM

lol @ townes and colours as units of measure.

Ciaran Gallagher @ May 7th 2008 12:42PM

That's like, one in every sixtieth person you meet in the UK is an owner of GTA - that's a lot!

SadisticHam @ May 7th 2008 12:53PM

Ehh..think your maths might be off a bit there, wonder how many of us there are in the UK now..hm..

Anyway I'm surprised at how close the PS3/360 sales are.

Raheem @ May 7th 2008 12:54PM

I'm thinking of buying copies for every homeless person to push those figures up. 1 in 10 ftw!

mattclarkie @ May 7th 2008 12:56PM

60million in the UK, 1 million units.

I think 1 out of every 60people is about right, just his spelling that was funky.

mattclarkie @ May 7th 2008 12:52PM

Nearly everyone in my Friends List has it, seems I am the only one in the UK who doesn't.

Raheem @ May 7th 2008 12:55PM

Uh, what are you playing at?

gamerismyname @ May 7th 2008 1:25PM

i dont know,but i believe paying to support a king and queen is a bit old worldish.. maybe thats me

mikey G @ May 7th 2008 2:32PM

The Queen, We Must get the Royal Plum to Stick up her Ass!.

Anyways... to the note down bottom... But who really cares... Look at polling for the democrats... 105% of precincts in! People can never do anything right when it comes to Statistics.

jordanho1 @ May 7th 2008 3:40PM

love how there's been all this talk about how the game has driven all these new PS3 sales... which it has... but that PS3 is up 127% over last week and 360 is up 125%.

Gotta love the executives spinning everything all over the place. :)

TORO @ May 7th 2008 5:32PM

Yup, the 360 has been selling strong (comparable to PS3) despite it's already established userbase

ManicBomber @ May 7th 2008 6:24PM

No the 360 isn't and never has sold well in the UK, and this is why they don't deserve to whine about demo's and other regionally locked content that they don't get before the US, you know the millions of people here that actually supported the 360 and didn't wait to buy a PS3.

It's disgusting how much they whine about content when they barely buy more Xbox 360's than Japan.