Microsoft Playing up GTA IV Impact on Console Sales
Written by IT News on 4:52 PMA 40% rate for bundled Xbox 360s
Microsoft is clearly trying to escape, the number of proof, as the Xbox 360 is always that now the "killer app" is that Grand Theft Auto IV. The company is now that 40% of the new Xbox sales in the first week of GTA IV launch were in the party.
A recent statement from Microsoft also claimed that 60% of sales of the band were living game for the Xbox 360, with only 40% is the Playstation 3 Even earlier, when it, Microsoft, that the Xbox 360 version of GTA IV is outselling the PS3 version of two to one. Either the figures by train to change very, very quickly, or from Microsoft is really efforts to turn what is so hard as possible for their own console, the console was recently proposed in the sale of cards by the Sony rivals.
A spokesman for the city was founded by Major Nelson, a known source for the timeliness of the Xbox, as saying: "The game is well suited to the new consoles, almost 40 percent of the 360s out door has a copy of GTA IV is them. " The game, leads to 360 the total sales by 54% if the figures are in comparison to the week of publication.
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The number indicates, precisely the date on which Microsoft and Sony, in another "war of words" in relation to the success of their consoles in the European market. According to David Reeves, Sony said that the PS3 outsold the Xbox 360 in absolute numbers in Europe, Microsoft has responded and said that these figures do not even know that the real and Xbox console is the selection for the European players.
If GTA IV leads to a growth in sales of Xbox 360, Microsoft can claim that he has the best console, which justifies the millions of lies flat on Rock Star, the only content downloaded from the upcoming August. On the other hand, if the PlayStation 3 version of the game sold, the number close to the Xbox 360 version, Sony will say that the only reason for the success of the console from Microsoft, is limited, it is the large advertising campaign by the promise garni by DLC.
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