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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.
I think this just goes to show that any publicity is good publicity. The GTA series has been the poster-child for anti-violentvideogame groups. However, I have to agree that it's a kickass game, and I'm glad to see that Rockstar is being successful and not taking a pounding in sales for having some content that several concerned mothers don't approve of.
I agree. GTA is one of many testaments to the idea that you don't need to go purely 3D for a game to be fun. Although for some reason I didn't like GTA2 as much as the first.
So your viewpoints are completely different, and she disapproves of the things that you think are fun, and you have to lie to her about your opinions just to be allowed in bed with her...
Do you really want to be marrying this chick?
Uh huh, yeah, there's a lot of rape in that game alright. Dumbass.
:), but it's interesting that you can abandon the game plot and lead a moral life within the game.
Incidently, you can also be a "good guy" in this game (more so than GTA 3). You can stop criminals (through non-lethal methods) and get jobs (ie/ pizza boy), save up and buy a house, all without committing crimes.
I'm not trying to justify the game (the whole point of the game is to commit crime and that's how it is sold and we like it like that - nothing wrong with escapist fantasy, depending on the shrink you talk to
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
Gee, my girlfriend is about as pure as snow, but even she thinks Vice City is cool.
Does your fiance' ever watch violent movies? If so, what weak argument does she offer to excuse that but still condemn GTA?
I have both, and find myself playing Vice City more simply because it's newer, but it doesn't seem that it has as much. Sometimes I'll play it just to "Find a new package today" or something like that.
GTA Vice City is a good game without a doubt, but in the end I think that GTA3 was a better game overall. Vice City also had a few more bizarre bugs than GTA3, but I don't guess that's really important.
What matters is that they're both great games, even if I personally think 3 was better than VC. I hope the series moves forward and doesn't become very ho-hum.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
8.5M copies. That means a fairly large percentage of the population has played this game.
So if the "fake violence breeds real violence" crowd is right, we should be seeing a fairly significant spike in violent crime, right?
No? That's what I thought.
-S
--- What parts of "shall make no law", "shall not be infringed", and "shall not be violated" don't you understand?
How is it a "joke"? The article specifically states that Duke Nukem Forever is basically a write off at this point: It materially relates to the story at hand.
In a related note, what a disaster DNF has been, and what a tremendous example of an incredible software project management failure. I mean using the "we're making it super, duper good!" excuse works for so long until pretty soon you're just perpetually fighting the natural curve of technology. I really feel sorry for that team, or anyone who works on it.
Now as all the married and almost married men out here know, that if i was to say what i was thinking, it would have been a very lonely night for me and my PC! :-)
That's funny, I've been married for 10 years, and on the things that my wife and I don't agree on, she'll listen to my opinion and consider my viewpoint. I think there's something seriously wrong if you're letting someone control your life and tell you what you should think.
Interested in open source engine management for your Subaru?
I love anything even remotly related to all the GTA games, but I liked the music on GTA3 better than vice city. Vice City is all stuff I've been hearing for the last 20 years, I liked the original music better. Fernando and Laslo are both still on the radio though so i guess its ok.
That's a huge amount of sales. How many people would have pirated this if it had come out on PC instead of console?
This is perhaps one of the upsides to being a PS2 game, at least at first. If it had come out on PC earlier... a lot of people probably would have just pirated it instead of buying. I know I would have, though I would have bought it later had it met approval (judging by popular opinion, it would have) - though of couse on PS2 I can also rent it.
It makes a good statement about the popularity of console games though, wonder if anti-piracy is one of the reasons it's still console-only?
And yet, I'm aware one could play a pirated version with a chipped PS2... but it is *much* more a pain in the butt (and DVD+R is expensive) than PC piracy. Of course, on PC, people may have bought more than 1 CD to play multiplayer between machines.
Not to spark the software-piracy holy war, but it's an honest consideration for console games, and such high sales numbers may prove their increased profitability.
You're taking what I said out of context.
There was no context. It was three sentences
My statement indicated that Americans enjoyed being able to carry out the actions of criminals. They like living a lifestyle of crime and being able to have sex whenever they want with any hooker they want, and then getting the chance to beat them up afterwards.
As others said, the sales figures were worldwide. But let's pretend they were not. What you are saying is still false. I play Gran Turismo, yet I do not enjoy driving fast. I play NCAA Football 2003, but I don't like playing football in real life (or perhaps I just suck at it). I loved Max Payne, but I have no desire to be a cop pushed too far with nothing to lose.
That, and the 2001 census estimate on the US is 284,796,887 people. If 8,500,000 bought this game, that is only 3%. Not a good sample to base such a statement off of.
It's rude, crude, and downright degrading to women and policemen alike.
No arguement here, it certainly can be that. However I personally know some women and policemen alike who thought it was very entertaining. Either they are very masochistic people, or they are capable of seperating entertainment from real life.
I stand by my original statement. Anyone who has a sick fetish for being a crime boss should be tossed into jail.
I'm relieved you personally do not direct public policy in such matter. Any other thought crimes that should be punishable by jail term?
Like I said earlier, it's no wonder you are all such privacy nuts -- you're busy at home raping and killing on your videogame systems.
I don't use gpg and ssl to protect my credit card numbers, or keep marketers from getting personal information on me with which to market to me. Nope, I only want to conceal my unmentionable video game fetish.
Seriously, I get your point and belive it or not, I kinda agree. It is a pretty rude, crude, and sometimes degrading game. Certainly not something for kids.
However, if I can legally listen to gansta rap, watch 'shoot em up' movies, and read mystery novels where people get horribly murdered, how is the more of a crime? I'm certainly not emulating the game in real life. Feel free to look down on me, curse me, or experiment with voodoo while thinking of me, but don't equate playing a game with something that warrants jail time.
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> GTA is one of many testaments to the idea that you don't need to go purely 3D for a game to be fun.
:)
I doubt you need any testments at all to show non-3d games are fun, there were plenty of fun 2d games even before 3d games were available. I tend to find 2d games more fun, and I think it is because the programmers tend to concentrate on the game play more in those games rather than the graphics. Nice 3d graphics are nice, but that shouldn't be the focus. For exmaple, some may disagree and this is just my opinion, but I find Starcraft more fun than Warcraft III. I find most 3d games lacking in depth in game play, and am in fact still looking for testaments that 3d games can be fun. FPS's are an exception, but they've been hashed and rehashed so often they no longer have any appeal to me. Hmm, looks like I am ranting.. I'll stop now
However, it is a bad idea to just limit yourself to just a single platform, I agree. They should have released it simultaniously to the PC and Gamecube as well.
I'm pretty sure they will, I mean, they did for III, so I'd think they'd do the same for VC.
WTF are you talking about??? Vice City doesn't require any expensive graphics card, because it isn't played on the pc, it's ps2 exclusive, but it wasn't exactly programmed in C either, the ps2 uses a derivative of C, but I see you are okay with C#, so I take it that you are ok with derivatives of C.
You're being a complacent, pandering, pussywhipped fool (albeit "in love"), bordering on co-dependent. In 10 years you'll ache for the ability to say and act the way you really feel, as you two blend more and more into the same mediocre person.
And yes, this is speaking as someone who's currently in, and has had a few, long term (>1 year) relationships. Maintain your personality, your uniqueness, your vigor that makes us human. The boobies, the body parts, will sag -- make sure your personalities (you know, the things that you really fell in love with) don't!
8.5 million WORLDWIDE, there are another 270 countries on this planet other than USA, it really is true that you people live in bubble
people are playing this game from timbuctuu to the north pole
amen! too bad i don't have any mod points. excellent point though; you know you're with The One when you *don't* have to LIE like that to keep things smooth - you can just say "naw, screw that, they're just polygons...i respect your opinion, but i'm going to go play for awhile" and then still be allowed into bed.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley