55% of all sales were on Xbox 360 - 335,000 units beats first day sales of Halo 3.
According to ChartTrack data obtained by MCV the GTA 4 battle between Xbox 360 and PS3 has been won by the Microsoft console, with 55% of all units sold on the Xbox.
Of the total 609,000 units sold on day one, 335,000 units were snapped up for the Xbox 360, beating the 266,000 units sold in by Halo 3 on September 26, 2007.
The game sold 274,000 units on PS3, easily beating the previous one day record of 80,000 units set by Gran Turismo 5: Prologue on March 28, 2008.
ChartTrack director Dorian Bloch told MCV that sales will only go up and that the "Bank Holiday weekend should be a particularly fruitful period", so long as stock lasts.
For more on GTA 4 check out VideoGamer.com's 10/10 review and our Xbox 360 vs. PS3 feature which includes a comprehensive video comparison.
Karlius wrote at 08:51 on 01 May 2008
Lol saw that one coming!
Anonymous wrote at 08:59 on 01 May 2008
I'd have expected the 360 to sell more than that, versus the PS3. The userbase in the UK is still quite a bit higher, so it's amazing to me that the PS3 came so close to it.
I'd expect that across Europe overall, the PS3 version outsold the 360 version. The UK is the 360's best territory, and if the PS3 came close to it there, I imagine it handily beat it in most other territories.
Karlius wrote at 09:17 on 01 May 2008
USA Would have killed the PS3 sales no doubt. And seems as thatS the biggest territory by far followed by japan (PS3 but not big lovers of GTA) then BRITAIN not europe. Europe is probably a non worry.
I have numerous friends who could not get the game day 1 as there were not enough games and they didn't pre order. This was primarily for 360 as most of my friends own 360's but i have a few that couldn't find it for PS3 also which means sales could have and will be even highter! :)
Clance wrote at 10:07 on 01 May 2008
This doesn't affect me, I don't have any shares in these companies... I'm not happy or sad about it. More people own the 360, they sold more - it was an obvious outcome.
juuken wrote at 12:46 on 01 May 2008
That's only one country. Let's see the other sales.
cliffchandler wrote at 15:27 on 01 May 2008
Let's see how the figures play out during the next few months as the field gets larger in terms of more game.
Phil Harrison wrote at 16:02 on 01 May 2008
cliffchandler u sure are one optimist
The unknow wrote at 20:15 on 03 May 2008
Thas obious mayority of people have 360 than PS3 (Not because is better because is cheap) and is obious a gamer will like to try GTA 4. Thats why it selled more on 360 but wait til The 80GB PS3 version comes out you will see how many people will buy GTA 4 for PS3.