Variety: GTA IV to Break Record, Snatch $400 Million First Week

You can't swing a Liberty City cat without hitting a story about Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV these days. The game comes out end of this month, but it's already pretty much been reviewed -- all praise, no surprise there -- unofficially and in online interviews by everyone Rockstar flew in to play and finish the game a few weeks back. As usual Future Publishing has the print mag exclusive(s), so if that exclusive early-access relationship works for you, I think you can get their "10 out of 10" scoop in the latest issue of Official Xbox Magazine UK.

Show of hands? How many of you plan to wait, or even to bother reading reviews of this game, before picking up a copy? Okay, I know, there's that segment of you that likes to see if we in the media are half as smart as you when it comes to academically detailing every little pick and pan in a game after you've fanatically obsessed over played it and compared it to the average word-throttled article. But how about in more general terms: Do any of you fans of this 70 million total copies sold to date series seriously plan not to buy this game unless the score's a freak functionally negative integer?

Assuming it's as good as everyone's going to say it is (I know, I'm a veritable Kreskin!), I have just this one request: To those of you already yearning to pick apart whatever critical nuances could possibly exist between, say, an 8.9 and a 9.1, a 9.0 and a 9.2, a 9.0 and a 9.5, a 9.5 and a 10.0, etc., do us all a favor and lurk instead.

And finally regarding the post title: Ben Fritz over at Variety has a provocative piece up today claiming Grand Theft Auto IV is going to shatter records by selling $400 million in its first week, something Fritz notes could be "the biggest debut for an entertainment product [ever]."

Re-Play

Fearless or feckless? Have your say below or pelt me with emails here.

Comments

Post a comment Post a comment

0 / 1000 max characters