Grand Theft Auto IV

[Holic]

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13 days 7 hours and 3 minutes for me

13 days 5 hours and 53 minutes for me. LOL

[Jano]

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Just found two new images that include the hud in them.

[poster]

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This will be the first time I am really jealous of people who get games early from mom and pop stores. :-)

[SPTO]

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Man the hud is going to look ridiculously small on my small SDTV.

Oh well...

[bkfount]

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How much can they make off of $5 bucks if I wait until the day before it releases to preorder?

it not just you. If gamestop gets 1 million preorders on a game months in advance, that's a ton of money for them. They've been getting preorders for GTA for a year at least. Gamestops don't push preordering of games because they think they'll be scarce when released and want to help out the gamers. They do it because they make money off people doing it.

If someone chooses to do it pay early for a game, that's their business. You don't get the game any earlier than everyone else, and it can be found anywhere on it's release date. It's just the whole concept of preordering games is outdated today, but still encouraged because it gets the companies that do it lots of extra money when they don't have to wait for the game to actually be released to make money off it.

[bkfount]

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Could contain minor spoliers.

- A pedestrian has the original GTA theme as their ringtone.

nice. I actually already have the GTA3 theme on my phone, and use the pager sound from the game as my text sound.

[Flawless]

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A GTA IV Euro Ad

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[NEW_ORLEANS]

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What does the original GTA theme sound like I love GTA3's theme I bump it in my car daily.

[ezekiel55]

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LCD Soundsystem...nice!

I have to admit, any time I see that Flawless has the last post in the thread I get excited...this guy is an info hawk!

[eDotd]

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LOL those people behind him in the beginning were doing some kind of yoga or karate.

[Vast]

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They make interest off your money that you can be making.

No point in pre-ordering to make their pockets fatter if you have the available means to buy a game outright.

Obviously if you live in a smaller town pre-ordering makes sense.

I paid for this game in full already. And i live in Queens. The reason being i want the game at midnight monday night into tuesday morning.

Theres no way u can get this game at midnight without pre-ordering. Paying for the game in full means i can cut in line and just grab my game and leave, while the 5 bucks down guys wait inline to pay for the rest of the game.

12 more days

[bkfount]

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What does the original GTA theme sound like I love GTA3's theme I bump it in my car daily.

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[Pared]

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I paid for this game in full already. And i live in Queens. The reason being i want the game at midnight monday night into tuesday morning.

Theres no way u can get this game at midnight without pre-ordering. Paying for the game in full means i can cut in line and just grab my game and leave, while the 5 bucks down guys wait inline to pay for the rest of the game.

12 more days

Umm... there will be a good amount of places selling the game earlier than Monday midnight here in NYC...


Always happens.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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GTA Could Get $400 Mil in the First Week...Could Become Biggest Entertainment Property Launch Of All Time

Sources "close to" Take-Two Interactive tell Variety presell figures indicate the darkly comic PS3/360 crime spree will have the biggest debut of all time.
By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot
Posted Apr 15, 2008 6:01 pm PT
There's no question that Grand Theft Auto IV will have a massive debut. How massive, exactly? Today, Variety predicted the Rockstar Games title could see biggest entertainment property launch of all time when it goes on sale worldwide on April 29 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

The Hollywood trade claims that "sources close to publisher Take-Two Interactive," which owns Rockstar Games, have been tracking how many units of GTAIV they have pre-sold to retailers. According to said sources, the publisher believes 6 million units of the Rockstar North-developed game will sell during its first week on the market, generating over $400 million in revenue.

If that figure holds out, GTAIV will come close to exceeding the $404 million Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End grossed internationally during its first six days in theaters. It will soundly best the current record-holder for a game premiere, Halo 3, which earned $300 million by selling 5 million copies in its first week on the worldwide market last year.

Some analysts are predicting GTAIV to do even bigger business when it arrives. Last October, Janco Partners' Mike Hickey says Rockstar's latest could "conceivably" ship 9.5 million units in one week--5.8 million in the US alone. The most popular GTA game to date is 2004's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which has sold nearly 22 million units worldwide to date on the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC.

Variety correctly notes that Take-Two will need GTAIV to be a hit of outsized proportions to stave off Electronic Arts' takeover bid, which became hostile on March 13. Thursday afternoon, Take-Two stockholders will meet to discuss EA's $2 billion, $26-per-share offer, which is a 64 percent mark-up over the publisher's previous stock price. Late last month, Take-Two management led by chairman Strauss Zelnick asked shareholders to decline EA's offer, which some analysts believe could lead to a GTAIV delay if it is successful.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6189326.html?action=convert&om_clk=latestnews&tag=latestnews;title;0

[ThaGenecyst]

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