GTA V Makes $800 Million In 24 Hours 396
An anonymous reader writes "The highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto V was released at midnight yesterday, and to no surprise has managed to break the record for highest sales in 24 hours. Distributors Take-Two Interactive have announced that the game has managed to achieve a staggering $800m (£490m) worth of sales within the first day, and is certainly going to break the forecasted $1 billion within the week. The record was previous held by Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops which made $500m within 24 hours in 2009. The game also holds the title for the quickest entertainment product to achieve $1 billion in sales as they hit the mark by day 15."
Meh (Score:0, Informative)
Re:No PC yet (Score:5, Informative)
A more likely reason is that PC games typically retail for less, suffer higher rates of piracy and must cope with a wider variety of hardware which must all be developed and tested for with higher resolutions and assets to boot. I assume that all these reasons play their part in consoles taking over from PCs in the last few years. Perhaps with digital download services like Steam and wannabes taking off that the PC market is more attractive than it was a few years back.
Re:No PC yet (Score:5, Informative)
GTA was originally a PC game and they have been treating PC as a second class citizen lately.
If by "lately" you mean "since 1999", then I suppose you're right. GTA hasn't been a PC game for a looooong time.
Re:Sure (Score:4, Informative)
GTA is shallow and boring.
Compared to what? GTA is one of the most free-form and detailed virtual worlds there is. It's filled with beauty, technical awesomeness and humour. Are you just not a fan of games in general? What did you think of Red Dead Redemption?
Re:No PC yet (Score:5, Informative)
Re:No PC yet (Score:5, Informative)
It did NOT perform "fine" if you had a quad-core.
It performed extremely bad on my i7, until the patch.