MS: 360 GTA IV Outselling PS3 Version 2-to-1

"What we've heard anecdotally from our retail partners is that the Xbox 360 version of the game is outselling the PS3 version by a margin of two-to-one," said Aaron Greenberg, director of product management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live during an interview Thursday.

"That mirrors what we saw with pre-orders, but it continues to hold true at retail, at least for the first couple of days. It's a great sign."

But a SCEA rep questioned Microsoft's findings, saying that Microsoft's two-to-one ratio "doesn't line up" with what Sony has been hearing from its retailers. The rep declined to say exactly what Sony has been hearing from its retail partners until more concrete data can be compiled.

In day-one sales in the UK, the Xbox 360 version of GTA IV outsold the PS3 version: 335,000 versus 274,000, respectively, according to Chart Track.

Asked if April NPD results would definitely show a GTA IV-driven Xbox 360 hardware boost, Greenberg said, "I think we'll have solid performance in April, but I think you might actually see a bigger impact in May."

Heavy Xbox Live play

Greenberg said that on day one, roughly 1 million GTA IV users went online with the game on Xbox Live.

"It's been the number one game on Xbox Live since its launch, so it's knocked off Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4," said Greenberg. "At launch, our data shows that out of all of our members on Live, the majority of them were playing GTA IV.

"With a community of over 10 million members, that's pretty rare."

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This affects me...how?

Knowing the 360 is selling more won't give me some sort of satisfaction while playing it on mine.

I wouldn't be surprised if the 360 version outsold the PS3 version by a large margin, but I'll wait for official numbers.

makes sense, considering there are twice as many 360s out thereejstrup

Wouldn't be the first time MS lied about sales numbers..... 2 to 1 yeh rightEmperorSupreme

well considering there are more xbox360 than PS3 I dont find it that much of a surprise... GTAIV is really popular in US where Xbox360 is the strongest in installed base compared to PS3...

Honestly I dont care much, got my copy of GTA IV yesterday and its great :)

Yeah, it's doing better on 360 over here in NZ. On our local version of eBay (Trademe), only GTAIV on the PS3 can be found in the listings. When I went to my local store to purchase a copy of GTA IV, they said the only copies of the 360 version they had were pre orders, though they had PS3 versions still in stock. I thought this was suppose to be the PS3's defining moment?FrozenLiquid

Sounds like they ordered extra copys of the Ps3 version by what you're saying.

[QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"]Yeah, it's doing better on 360 over here in NZ. On our local version of eBay (Trademe), only GTAIV on the PS3 can be found in the listings. When I went to my local store to purchase a copy of GTA IV, they said the only copies of the 360 version they had were pre orders, though they had PS3 versions still in stock. I thought this was suppose to be the PS3's defining moment?Chutebox

Sounds like they ordered extra copys of the Ps3 version by what you're saying.

[QUOTE="Chutebox"]

[QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"]Yeah, it's doing better on 360 over here in NZ. On our local version of eBay (Trademe), only GTAIV on the PS3 can be found in the listings. When I went to my local store to purchase a copy of GTA IV, they said the only copies of the 360 version they had were pre orders, though they had PS3 versions still in stock. I thought this was suppose to be the PS3's defining moment?FrozenLiquid

Sounds like they ordered extra copys of the Ps3 version by what you're saying.

No...If they are out of 360 versions of gta because they only ordered pre-ordered, what does that tell you about the Ps3 version? It means they ordered extra along with the preorder. I'm not saying this is true, but it sounds like it by what you said.

[QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"][QUOTE="Chutebox"]

[QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"]Yeah, it's doing better on 360 over here in NZ. On our local version of eBay (Trademe), only GTAIV on the PS3 can be found in the listings. When I went to my local store to purchase a copy of GTA IV, they said the only copies of the 360 version they had were pre orders, though they had PS3 versions still in stock. I thought this was suppose to be the PS3's defining moment?Chutebox

Sounds like they ordered extra copys of the Ps3 version by what you're saying.

No...If they are out of 360 versions of gta because they only ordered pre-ordered, what does that tell you about the Ps3 version? It means they ordered extra along with the preorder. I'm not saying this is true, but it sounds like it by what you said.

[QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"][QUOTE="Chutebox"]

[QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"]Yeah, it's doing better on 360 over here in NZ. On our local version of eBay (Trademe), only GTAIV on the PS3 can be found in the listings. When I went to my local store to purchase a copy of GTA IV, they said the only copies of the 360 version they had were pre orders, though they had PS3 versions still in stock. I thought this was suppose to be the PS3's defining moment?Chutebox

Sounds like they ordered extra copys of the Ps3 version by what you're saying.

No...If they are out of 360 versions of gta because they only ordered pre-ordered, what does that tell you about the Ps3 version? It means they ordered extra along with the preorder. I'm not saying this is true, but it sounds like it by what you said.

What it sounded like to me was all the 360 versions they were due to receive were all pre-ordered and they didn't have any left over to sell, while the PS3 version wasn't as pre-ordered as the 360 version so there were some left on the shelf.

[QUOTE="Chutebox"][QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"][QUOTE="Chutebox"]

[QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"]Yeah, it's doing better on 360 over here in NZ. On our local version of eBay (Trademe), only GTAIV on the PS3 can be found in the listings. When I went to my local store to purchase a copy of GTA IV, they said the only copies of the 360 version they had were pre orders, though they had PS3 versions still in stock. I thought this was suppose to be the PS3's defining moment?FrozenLiquid

Sounds like they ordered extra copys of the Ps3 version by what you're saying.

No...If they are out of 360 versions of gta because they only ordered pre-ordered, what does that tell you about the Ps3 version? It means they ordered extra along with the preorder. I'm not saying this is true, but it sounds like it by what you said.

It's not that much smaller, and hasn't DMC4 sold more on Ps3 WW?

Oh I see where the problem is I will correct my post.FrozenLiquid

Just read it, makes more sense now lol.