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Bookmaker takes bets on GTA IV chart success

Posted on April 30th, 2008 at 06:16 EDT

Popular bookmarker Paddy Power has started taking bets on how long Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV will remain at the top of the UK charts, offering odds of 9/2 that the crime epic will stay there for ten weeks.

Nintendo’s Wii Fit is currently lined up at the odds of 6/4 to knock the game off the top of the charts, followed by Mario Kart Wii, which is also a favourite to topple Rockstar’s latest epic.

Paddy Power has previously offered bets on a number of related topics in the videogames industry, such a last year, where the bookie ran bets on how low Sony would cut the price of the PlayStation 3 in Europe.

Stay tuned for our review on Grand Theft Auto IV soon.

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posted 6:31am EDT - April 30th, 2008
1

i say it will stay on top till haze comes out.

posted 8:42am EDT - April 30th, 2008
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psn id: gingo.... i reckon it will be 6 weeks before it is knocked off the top spot

posted 9:12am EDT - April 30th, 2008
3

i bet 7 weeks ( ha ha just guess :P )

posted 10:03am EDT - April 30th, 2008
4

I'm going with probably 5 weeks tops.   But I'm not in UK so I don't know.

 

PSN: DarkJ3JB

posted 10:16am EDT - April 30th, 2008
5

@coveted

i dont think haze will knock it off its spot GTA will be way more popular than haze.

posted 10:34am EDT - April 30th, 2008
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i doubt it will stay there for 10 weeks but then their really isnt that much that could topple it. Ar5enal to win the premiership perhaps :-)

posted 11:08am EDT - April 30th, 2008
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i dont know how huge mgs4 is over, but it comes out in 6 weeks(ish) and i think that could potentially knock gta4 from the top spot.

posted 1:37pm EDT - April 30th, 2008
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its a really popular game but more people hav got wiis so . . . its a tough call think it cood b safe there for a while :D

AND IVE GOT A HORROR STORY FOR U ALL. on saturday i bought gta from tesco and today it came in the post. so i open it all excited. look at the top. and realise its for the XBOX. hope u lot r enjoying it tho XD. ive ordered it agen soo with a bit of luck (which i am low on atm) it shood come by saturday. if not shood b tuesday or wednesday. i can pray :P

talk about bad luck tho :-/ lol

posted 11:48pm EDT - April 30th, 2008
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@ Coveted: Haze won't even be close to knocking it off.  Ubisoft jacked around and held the game off so it would look better in a business perspective and they lost a lot of fans.

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Paddy Power didn't say which version.  I'm pretty certain that after 6 weeks, it will drop at leats 1 position on the PS3 chart.  MGS4 anyone?

And no way a Wii game is going to knock off a huge franchise like GTA, expecially on two platforms.

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