GTA: Episodes from Liberty City sells under 160K in Oct.-Nov.

In September, Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City was being pegged as one of the fourth quarter's heavy hitters. Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter predicted the boxed compilation of Grand Theft Auto's two Xbox 360-exclusive expansions--The Lost & Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony--could sell between 2.25-2.75 million units at retail.

[Mista T]

R* needs to brink back old GTA elements, it's what made it fun

[Government Cheese]

But these numbers don't really mean anything. Most of the people who bought the Ballad of Gay Tony bought it digital, because they already owned The lost and damned and essentially buying it again with Episodes from Liberty City would just be a waste of money. I don't know why they won't release the download numbers though.

[TheDeadMetalhead]

Pachter predicted it would succeed. So OF COURSE it didn't sell well. D:

lol @ reply glitch

[IzKyD1331]

Yeah, I didn't play San Andreas and Vice City for the realism, I played to drive tanks over cops and hookers

[kalebgray92]

thats sad thats like a 1 week sale for a major AAA release months after initial release

[Blaze929]

I wish Microsoft would release the digital numbers. So its quite clear, and I'm sure Microsoft isn't THAT stupid, that the did not just dump $50 million down the drain for nothing. Maybe part of it goes along for a 360 exclusive. Maybe the one that was rumored to be in the makes by the Bully team.

[mikeslemonade]

Because it was digital and because it was overpriced the game still sold well. No suprise here because 360 games always sell well. Now Microsoft paying 50 million to keep these exclusive was not worth it. Ballad of Gay Tony was good but Lost and Damned was worst than GTA4.

[Hisiru]

600k already + digital numbers, it's selling well for an expansion, it will be a million seller without digital numbers.

I don't like Lost & Damned but Ballad Of Gay Tony is an incredible game.

[SilentNegotiator]

Hai Guys! Why don't good exclusive games sell on the 360?

Ha! How does it feel when it's on YOUR console, fanboys?

[Sigh]

yeah I agree. Your post was hilarious by the way, so true XD

[NecrumSlavery]

GTA4 went to dramatic and ruined the series. The DLC is a nice addition, but not award winning as it should of been.

So we wait for RED DEAD REDEMPTION, Agent, LA Noire, Max Payne 3...etc

GAY TONY was real good though, kind of sparked that fun the GTA series had back in San Andreas

[SupraDOHC]

Where did you get 600k units? Its sold 160K total as of Nov 28, 60K the first week of release and 100k the following 3 weeks....

[blue7xx7]

Yeah it most likely sold more on downloads. Plus yeah I agree with the article they didn't really marketed the game. I saw no commercials for it. The only place I saw ads where on gaming website but that's it.

[Megaton]

Are you kidding me? I saw more ads for this than anything else the past couple months, including MW2. They bought out nearly half the ad time during Strikeforce's big event with Fedor on CBS last month, and pretty much every other channel I watch was running them all of October and the first half of November.

Saw a shortened version of this one...
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

...and then they ran a cut version of this one constantly...
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Had the song from the 2nd one stuck in my head cause I kept seeing it so much.

[GameOn]

Its been advertised quite heavily on TV in the UK. Really cool music in the ads.

I'm guessing most people had downloaded the first episode before they heard about the retail release.

[Government Cheese]

Yeah, in fact in a Flickr group that I am a member in, someone uploaded a photo of Times Square and there was a big billboard right there for the ballad of gay tony. And I doubt that advertising space was cheap.

edit: heres the photo http://www.flickr.com/photo... (far left part of the image)

[Ninji]

Millions of dollars wasted on a flop.

[Rocket Sauce]

But they managed to make $50 million before it even came out, nice move.

[SKUD]

These episodes are pretty useless.

[firelogic]

Ugh, I'm so sick of Pachter. Why the hell do we even know this guy?

[Elven6]

How is this selling outside of America?

[Saaking]

GTA is at it's best here in NA, so I don't think it's doing that much better in other parts of the world. Still, these are pretty good numbers. I'm probably gonna buy it now that they're on disk (I really don't like buying digital games).

[Advari]

If Rockstar would port the DLC to GTA to the PS3 the sales might be a bit better

[Dutch Boogie]

Nar i still wouldn't but this pos.

[mesh1]

NICE TRY DROIDS BUT ATLEAST THE MENTIONED the download via xboxlive which 100% of xbox owners used to get the get as why would any 1 buy lost and the damnned a second time and pay extra whe u can down via xbox live ?

edit: @NINJi
your mums breasts are tens doller floppy 1s tho the swine.

[The Iron Sheik]

Time to bring it to the PS3 Rockstar.

[pimpmaster]

i enjoyed it but bring it to ps3 dammit! im trying to switch to ps3 now cause M$ sucks.

[thedarkvault]

I bought both dlcs, though TLAD took me 6 months before I eventually bought it(had GTA4 since launch). I havent beat BOGT yet & while it is a nice different GTA4 experience it still doesn't feel all that different. GTA just needs a whole new city & theme, not just more and more stories in the same city. People are so worn out of Liberty City and we don't want another rehash of something we've already seen in the past 7-8 years, and don't be afraid to step outside the bounds of reality a bit.

[kingdavid]

Another example of why the fk do analysts get money for what they do.

[AliTheBrit19]

Dissapointing, because its a great buy, with 3 times as much content as most games, like Uncharted 2

Lol Had to say it xD

[Akagi]

R* are probably laughing all the way to the bank because to create this GTA: Episode cost them next to nothing and almost every gamer has GTA 4 and yet, look how much they sold.

P.S Sadly, it is never coming to PS3 because M$ paid for the exclusivity of these DLC. :(

[Droid Control]

its old gen gameplay hasn't evolved to take advantage of chav-less next gen hardware.

[RockmanII7]

He is always wrong. I really hope he predicts that Mega Man X9 will never be made.

[SpinalRemains138]

Dude, is your avatar a smiley after 2 qualuudes? That's the funniest thing I've seen in a few days. It looks wasted!