April 23rd, 2008

Pre-orders at GameStop skyrocket for IV

Published at 5:05 AM PST

GameStop has stated today that the orders for Grand Theft Auto IV in-which it has purchased for retailing is that of the largest they have ever delt with before. Bob McKenzie, GameStop's senior vice president of merchandising, said:

"On pre-orders, it's really tracking where we anticipated it to be,"
"It probably will land within the top three. There were a couple titles we shipped last year that had larger reservations."
"We're not to the finish line with it yet but definitely it's very strong and we're happy with where the reservation activity is coming in,"

GS also expects that the sales of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 will rise as of it's release on the 29th. This is terrific news after some retailers in Australia said they were seeing the opposite effect.

Source: Reuters