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Richard Dower · 04-09-2013 02:52PM

Rockstars new financial year starts in late February....so it speculated as a late March release. Consoles are bug testers for the PC version which should have all the patches and bug fixes pre-installed.

Btw.....first time ever playing GTA, i pre-order number 5 today, but 65 quid?......ffs!

DarkJager · 04-09-2013 03:06PM

Richard Dower wrote: »

Rockstars new financial year starts in late February....so it speculated as a late March release. Consoles are bug testers for the PC version which should have all the patches and bug fixes pre-installed.

Btw.....first time ever playing GTA, i pre-order number 5 today, but 65 quid?......ffs!

For the hours upon hours of gameplay you'll get out of it, it's worth every single cent.

zl1whqvjs75cdy · 04-09-2013 03:12PM

Richard Dower wrote: »

Rockstars new financial year starts in late February....so it speculated as a late March release. Consoles are bug testers for the PC version which should have all the patches and bug fixes pre-installed.

Btw.....first time ever playing GTA, i pre-order number 5 today, but 65 quid?......ffs!

Ah Rockstar and their "Spring" releases. The biggest trolls of all.

Corkfeen · 04-09-2013 06:52PM

Richard Dower wrote: »

Rockstars new financial year starts in late February....so it speculated as a late March release. Consoles are bug testers for the PC version which should have all the patches and bug fixes pre-installed.

Btw.....first time ever playing GTA, i pre-order number 5 today, but 65 quid?......ffs!

You've never played GTA. :eek: Get the collection, it'll fill the next 2 weeks!

TheGunns · 04-09-2013 07:02PM

Richard Dower wrote: »

Rockstars new financial year starts in late February....so it speculated as a late March release. Consoles are bug testers for the PC version which should have all the patches and bug fixes pre-installed.

Btw.....first time ever playing GTA, i pre-order number 5 today, but 65 quid?......ffs!

65? :O from where?

35 pounds on Amazon so around 40 euro

Richard Dower · 04-09-2013 09:44PM

TheGunns wrote: »

65? :O from where?

35 pounds on Amazon so around 40 euro

take one guess...starts with a G

Mr E · 04-09-2013 09:47PM

HMV open on Friday, Rich.... pretty sure they'll be cheaper than €65.

TheGunns · 04-09-2013 10:04PM

Mr E wrote: »

HMV open on Friday, Rich.... pretty sure they'll be cheaper than €65.

Is the one in Limerick open then too? (sorry for the off topic post)

Deano7788 · 04-09-2013 10:47PM

TheGunns wrote: »

Is the one in Limerick open then too? (sorry for the off topic post)

The one in the Crescent, yeah.

GTR63 · 07-09-2013 02:04AM

James74 · 07-09-2013 03:35AM

I wanna see Kung Foo Rainbow Lazer Force!

Local-womanizer · 08-09-2013 05:22PM

Father Ted reference in the game apparently

danthefan · 08-09-2013 05:53PM

http://vr-zone.com/articles/grand-theft-auto-v-expensive-video-game-production-history-beats-big-budget-hollywood-films/55320.html

If I'm reading this right, the cost of producing GTAV is the second most expensive of any entertainment product, including films, in history.

ShadowHearth · 08-09-2013 06:37PM

danthefan wrote: »

http://vr-zone.com/articles/grand-theft-auto-v-expensive-video-game-production-history-beats-big-budget-hollywood-films/55320.html

If I'm reading this right, the cost of producing GTAV is the second most expensive of any entertainment product, including films, in history.

If that's true, then it is very scary thing. GTA most likely will make a profit, but they will need to sell a ton **** of copies just too break even. Almost all of the active 360/ps3 have to buy this game for them to make good profit. Yes, we got about 160mil current gen consoles sold, but how many of them bough twice by same person, how many people have both ps3 and 360 and will buy only one copy? How many people don't like GTA at all?

PickledLime · 08-09-2013 06:38PM

Think they've already broke even on preorders alone, so there's no fear of them not turning a profit.

danthefan · 08-09-2013 06:39PM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

If that's true, then it is very scary thing. GTA most likely will make a profit, but they will need to sell a ton **** of copies just too break even. Almost all of the active 360/ps3 have to buy this game for them to make good profit. Yes, we got about 160mil current gen consoles sold, but how many of them bough twice by same person, how many people have both ps3 and 360 and will buy only one copy? How many people don't like GTA at all?

It's around €190m from what I can see.

So at €50 a pop, that would be 3.8m copies sold. Now obviously the revenues are all going to be split up between developer, publisher, retailer etc but it'll do 3.8m copies on opening weekend I reckon. It's going to sell 15m+ I would imagine in its lifetime.

Pac1Man · 08-09-2013 06:40PM

The special editions would go some way of reducing that target, being €80 & €150.

ShadowHearth · 08-09-2013 06:44PM

danthefan wrote: »

It's around €190m from what I can see.

So at €50 a pop, that would be 3.8m copies sold. Now obviously the revenues are all going to be split up between developer, publisher, retailer etc but it'll do 3.8m copies on opening weekend I reckon. It's going to sell 15m+ I would imagine in its lifetime.

Not all of that 50 is going to developer. I am pretty sure they have more expenses for marketing after that too. We already got sleeping dogs and tomb raider examples and those did not even went near such budgets.

TimeToShine · 08-09-2013 06:44PM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

If that's true, then it is very scary thing. GTA most likely will make a profit, but they will need to sell a ton **** of copies just too break even. Almost all of the active 360/ps3 have to buy this game for them to make good profit. Yes, we got about 160mil current gen consoles sold, but how many of them bough twice by same person, how many people have both ps3 and 360 and will buy only one copy? How many people don't like GTA at all?

I would be utterly shocked if this game doesn't turn over a huge profit. 2.5m pre-orders in the US alone puts them at around $150m in turnover already and that's assuming they are all just regular editions.

danthefan · 08-09-2013 06:46PM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Not all of that 50 is going to developer.

I know, that's exactly what I said.

danthefan wrote: »

Now obviously the revenues are all going to be split up between developer, publisher, retailer etc but it'll do 3.8m copies on opening weekend I reckon. It's going to sell 15m+ I would imagine in its lifetime.

On the rest of your post, Tomb Raider sold somewhere between 3 and 4 million units. GTAV will do a multiple of that. Sleeping Dogs did less than 2m units. I think I read somewhere that GTAV has more than that in pre-orders.

ShadowHearth · 08-09-2013 06:48PM

TimeToShine wrote: »

I would be utterly shocked if this game doesn't turn over a huge profit.

It will make profit, but 265mil $ budget is mad. I doubt its a final number too.

danthefan · 08-09-2013 07:20PM

GTAIV sold twenty five million copies all told, for comparison. Now some of those would have been on PC and therefore a good bit cheaper than console versions but if you guess at even €25 a copy that's over €600m in revenue.

GTAV is going to make a massive profit.

ShadowHearth · 08-09-2013 07:28PM

danthefan wrote: »

GTAIV sold twenty five million copies all told, for comparison. Now some of those would have been on PC and therefore a good bit cheaper than console versions but if you guess at even €25 a copy that's over €600m in revenue.

GTAV is going to make a massive profit.

Well it does look like a lot. You are right, they will still make profit, but I still think that almost 200mil EU budget is freaking mad.

Richard Dower · 09-09-2013 06:25AM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

It will make profit, but 265mil $ budget is mad. I doubt its a final number too.

A huge portion of that budget though is marketing....i doubt the game itself cost 100 million, probably 80 million.

Richard Dower · 09-09-2013 06:26AM

the game is expected to break 1 billion......big profit.

COYVB · 09-09-2013 01:20PM

GTA V will to a minimum of 10m in its first week

Icyseanfitz · 09-09-2013 03:10PM

haha gta5 is a sure fire profit machine, thats why its budget is so crazy, they know they will make it back easy

shuffles03 · 09-09-2013 05:21PM

Father Ted reference in GTA V:

http://www.joe.ie/entertainment/video-games/picture-careful-now-a-little-bit-of-father-ted-will-make-an-appearance-in-gta-v/

Priceless!!!!

Sephiroth_dude · 09-09-2013 05:33PM

Cant believe gamestop are charging 64.99 for the standard edition of gta5,rip off.

danthefan · 09-09-2013 05:52PM

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Cant believe gamestop are charging 64.99 for the standard edition of gta5,rip off.

Only thing for it is to vote with your feet. It's 35 sterling on amazon.co.uk.

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