GTA: Vice City Sells 8.5 Million Copies in 3 Months

Gus writes "Take Two Interactive Software reports that Grand Theft Auto: Vice City has sold more than 8.5 million copies in the first three months since its late-October launch. The good news is Rockstar Games has 11 titles in the works. The bad news is the chances of the next GTA making it out this year are pretty slim." Also, there's still a couple people waiting on Duke Nukem Forever, and their patience is wearing thin.

May 13th

[Anonymous Coward]

Heard it to be released May 13th with advanced options, improved graphics, and better quality sound. Woohoo!

Re:Next Game's Time Period?

[Cyph]

While I doubt that there's ever a chance of a 1930s GTA happening, you might find a game called Mafia [mafia-game.com] to your liking. In that game, you assume the role of a gangster, working for the mob in the 1930s. You drive cars and shoot people. :)

Re:No Playstation

[Anonymous Coward]

from gtavice.com

New York, NY- February 14, 2003- Rockstar Games, proudly announced today that the PC version of the global blockbuster, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, is set to hit retail shelves in North America on May 13th and in Europe on May 16th. The PC version will possess enhanced features including improved graphics and sound, additional PC controls, as well as several options for players to customize the game.

Re:What about video game piracy??

[nfg05]

You also don't see video game piracy of playsation games because Sony has copy controls on its games and getting around it requires soldering a chip onto your motherboard in most cases. Most people aren't going to do that, so piracy isn't mainstream. You don't hear the outcry about PS copy protection, just CD copy protection. But I digress, the point is that the video game industry doens't suffer from mainstream piracy because it is prevented by strong copy controls that are a bitch for normal users to get around.

Re:Overall?

[n0wak]

I believe that The Sims passed Myst at around the 13 Million Unit mark for the, so called, "top selling game of all time" title. What is wrong with that? Well, whenever anyone reports the Sims as "best selling game of all time" -- they fail to mention "... for the PC".

I think that Super Mario 3 still has the crown for units sold: in excess of 17 Million.

GTA still has a waaaays to go.

8.5 Million Units sold... of PS2s according to ZD!

[Theaetetus]

Was going to reply to a troll comment, but came across surprising information, so I didn't want this nested.

Here be comment:
Why isn't Vice City on the PC yet? Why did they release it on an old console that has no life left in it? Oh yeah, I forgot there for a second....Sony is frucking greedy! They're obviously delaying or even stopping Rockstar from releasing it on the PC or XBox because they want to sell more consoles. Bullshit.

So, I google(tm) for "PS2 sales figures 2003" and the top article is one from ZDNet with "PS2 sales up 24 percent" (Jan 2003)
It's since gone, but the google cache has it. The relevant paragraph is the first one:

Sony said on Thursday that it sold 8.5 million PlayStation2 game consoles during the key holiday shopping season in November and December, up 24 percent from a year ago and holding well ahead of rivals.

Now, that's just about the same time period the sales figures from Take Two are referring to, which means that almost everyone that bought a PS2 bought Vice City! Cool!

Now, in reply to the troll:
(also from ZD) The Sony figures followed an announcement by Nintendo on Wednesday that it sold 1.5 million of its GameCube machines in Europe in all of 2002.

Also, according to Sony, they've sold 41 Million PS2s. :)

-T

Re:Next Game's Time Period?

[gc3]

They did. It's called MAFIA...

http://mafia.godgames.com/

GC3

Re:It's all about the motorcycles.

[Anonymous Coward]

Your PS2 is broken, that never happened for me or 5 other people i know of playing it. And this is after literally days of playing.

Re:GTA

[wo1verin3]

Thank god the guys over here [t2u.com] are making an MP mod =)

Re:PC version?

[MartyC]

The PC version is due on May 13th in the US and May 16th in UK (and europe?). This is according to a Gamesdomain news story I saw yetserday.

Re:Vice City

[kyrre]

Gta: Vice City for the pc was announced 14 days ago. Here an url [rockstargames.com]. Click on news..

Re:It's all about the motorcycles.

[nathanh]

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City does have it's weaknesses. It's hung on me several times.

I've clocked 120 hours on this game (took a few weeks!) and it hasn't hung on me.

Bad guys have the amazing ability to shoot through walls. The save your partner mission was particularlly difficult given that someone I needed to kill was inside an object. In certain parts of the city, if you're zipping along quickly, it can't load geometry fast enogh, sometimes causing an object to pop into view just as you hit it.

I haven't seen any of that and I've finished all the core missions. Have you tried the disc on another PS2? I remember with my PSX that some games were "dodgy" and it turned out to be a bad CD assembly. New PSX and the problems went away.

Re:X-Box too? - Re:No Playstation

[Anonymous Coward]

From what I've read, PS2 has all rights to GTA:VICE and GTA3 for console systems. No Xbox since its a console. Just PS2 and PC versions.