April Software NPDs: GTA and Mario Kart Equal Cash

Posted by on May 16th, 2008 at 12:32pm

61 Frames Per Second wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
As it turns out, GameStop’s claim that 64% of all copies of GTA IV sold were on Xbox 360 was spot on — 64.9% is the exact number if you do the math with NPD’s numbers for the month of April. Between the 360 and PS3 versions of the game, GTA IV managed to sell 2.85 million even though it was released on April 29 — not too shabby. Mario Kart Wii, meanwhile, sold more than a million copies. That’s a million plastic wheels out there in the wild, imparing people’s ability to control the game prop

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