MS: GTA 4 Xbox 360 Outsold PlayStation 3 in UK; Gamers Play Over 31 Million Hours of 360 Edition
Perhaps responding to Sony's claim that the PlayStation 3 has surpassed Xbox 360 in Europe, Microsoft today announced that the Xbox 360 edition of Rockstar North's Grand Theft Auto IV outsold the PlayStation 3 version in the UK by 20%.
Of the game's $500 million worldwide launch, sales-tracking firm ELSPA/Chart-Track reported that 514,000 units of the Xbox 360 iteration and 413,000 PlayStation 3 copies were sold in the UK across its first week at retailers.
Microsoft claimed that UK sales of Xbox 360 hardware jumped 125% following the game's release. The company stated that, across the past week, gamers have spent more than 31 million hours playing Grand Theft Auto IV on Xbox 360, with over 9.7 million of those hours spend playing the game online.
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