'Grand Theft Auto IV' Isn't A Threat To Hollywood, Gaming Experts Say
Hollywood execs need not care about the half-billion-dollar gorilla that has been absorbing a lot of telecasting game players' fourth dimension. "G Larceny Auto IV," which sold 6 one thousand thousand copies in its first base week, is no threat to the picture show industry, according to gaming experts.
Before the latest edition of Rockstar Games' interactive crime drama was released last workweek, members of the play and plastic film industries, as well as the weightlift, pondered whether "GTA" was sledding to pain the loss of the "Branding iron Man" motion picture. Games of "GTA" magnitude don't typically hit stores at the saami time as the first big moving picture of the summer.
"GTA" netted $500 trillion in its first-class honours degree calendar week of worldwide release. "Fe Man" netted an impressive $101 million, better than expected. So perchance gaming's biggest and baddest aren't a scourge?
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