Grand Theft Auto V release would not save 2012 sales - Analysts

gta5 will drop on gta4's 5th birthday

or it will be 8th gen

maybe taking some time more, could improve the game Mr. vivalatour.

Nice to remember they make millions and yet they want more...  still buying this game because it makes you laugh, entertains you for long and R* makes great games, it just doesn't releases like 2,3 games a year.... WTF!?  with that

One long great interesting game each two years would be great.

R* taking so much time makes games better = BULL

R* spending lots of time on trailers & hype = TRUE

all the trailers & hype makes us feel better = BULL

R* does make lots of money regardless = TRUE

Oh..?? They make 10% less than the expected yearly industry sales? Yes, and? Should I start crying now? I mean how much less is that on the millions of dollars that they make!? I can only wonder what they'll do if they had my yearly salary, minus 10%.. Probably jump of a cliff somewhere.

Rockstar always keep a tight lip on their GTA games until just before release, I thought people would get used to it by now. Also, I kinda feel bad for Take-Two, they've published some of my favorite modern games. I thought Max Payne 3 was a success and there's still Borderlands 2 coming out soon, which is a must buy for me. Other than that, what else did they publish this year, Spec ops and the Darkness 2? I don't think those games were worth 60$ each, I might pick up the latter out of the discount bin, but only when it becomes really cheap.

In my opinion, the only game I see that can save the 2012 game sales is sadly Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

Tell us something we don't know. I'm actually glad that the gaming market is on the fritz since only few games that were worth buying came out this year. With that kind of money, there should be less focus on the amount of games being made and more focus on the quality of those games.

Hey Gamespot, i put my money on it that if you stop posting these stupid "analyst" articles you'd get a lot more respect from your followers.

"I can make wild guess, too."-Sgthombre

i can wait

Some gameplay please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe if they showed us some GAMEPLAY, people wouldn't be so skeptical about buying it. 

havent they been saying the same thing for the past 3 years about game sales falling but yet they always are proven wrong

Damn gamers eating instead of spending their money on games, how dare they?

Fuck analyzes and game sales I just want to see an actual gameplay video dammit! I feel like Rockstar just wants us to blindly buy this game regardless of it being good or not. 

I think that was the stupidest prediction I have ever heard that GTA 5 would not save the sales at the end of 2012 are you kidding me if GTA 5 comes out this year and most it will not and still with the release of GTA 5 and their figures, you have Halo 4, COD: Black-Ops 2,  Assassin's Creed 3 which I do believe was the top pre-ordered game a few month's ago and you got Far Cry 3, Borderlands 2 the new Medal of  Honor: Warfighter and Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, Forza 4 and I think their is few big game for the PS3 as well I think this year would end well for the gaming industry as a whole. Oh I almost forgot about the new Wii-U that should be hitting stores this winter as well.

So I think Micheal Pachter is really on something really good and if this game comes out this year that will be good if not I can wait until next March or April.

Ugh, Rockstar get over yourselves! Still no character creation? OMG! I know, I know, that's for Saint's Row and all, but golly jeez, Rockstar, I could care less about Niko Bellic throughout, because he was YOUR LAZY CREATION! Ugh, I'm gonna buy the game anyway, but the lack of character creation is very sickening.

GTAV will be the best

GTA IV was the worst in the series's. Way to easy and short. After playing for 10 hours and not dying at all. For me it was a huge failure and hope they wont bring out anathor kids game like that. 

Don't care, GTA V will still be quite epic, and as soon as they release the HD versions of GTA III, Vice City and San Andreas for the PS3 and I'm praying for a Vita release, I will be that much happier.

I just want the game forget about the analysts and figures. We all are going to buy the game anyways.

rockstar games are trolling us all. Almost 1 year has passed since the release of the last trailer. and we got nothing since then. wtf

Who cares about figures that doesn't even exist yet? Give us GTAV now! That's what really matters.

With more and more shooter games of exoskeletons that shoot nuclear bombs at opponents, it's no wonder the industry is in the hole. 

So.... from what I can tell, Watch Dogs and GTAV will release the same year.....

Boy I sure can't wait until I stop getting emails about **** analysts say and get something with even the slightest amount of substance.

Maybe if they dropped games back to 49.99-39.99 sales would improve.  Sure, there is less revenue per unit, but someone that only buys 3-5 games a year might now buy 6-8.  There are too many people that are not willing to spend 60 dollars on mediocre and iffy games.  Taking a hit on the price makes the games more accessible and affordable to those that are only mildly interested in a game instead of passing on them and saving for the must have titles.  It seems that the industry is going the opposite direction with DLC and micro-transactions, but in this economy, perhaps swaying things the other direction is actually the smarter business move.

The next entry in the open-world crime series could generate as much as $700 million for publisher Take-Two, but Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter -

aaaand that's where I stop reading.

gta v surely gona be the biggest hit of the year 2012

Its a slow year, big deal. Sometimes slow is good for the customers. It allows us to go back an replay some old games or it allows you to go buy that one game that you were interested  in but had other gaming priorities. Also its nearing the end of the current console cycle. Game sales tend to start falling off during this period

Despite all the money these publishers and developers are making, the industry is still in the pits. How in the world does that happen?

Can't believe it's been 9 months since we heard anything about the game. This is getting ridiculous. I mean Rockstar already has the game engine but it's taking longer than GTAIV

We're still listening to Patchter?