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Interview with XBOX 360 game boss, Shane Kim.

The game boss Shane Kim has said he thinks the 360 has a 7 year lifespan in it. He is very happy with the way GTAIV has been selling on the 360 with a whopping 65% of copies being sold on the 360. Then he goes on to answer a bunch of other 360 related questions put to him by gamesradar.
GamesRadar: What do you consider to be the star of your 2008 line-up?

Shane Kim: I don't like to pick between my children, but I think Gears Of War has the potential to be one of the biggest releases this Fall. We sold over five million units of the original Gears of War - we now have a much larger install base and that combined with what Epic have been able to do... I'm pretty excited.

Fable 2 I think will be huge also, we have high hopes for what Peter (Molyneux) has achieved.

Those are our biggest titles for Fall 2008.

GR: GTA IV has just come out, how do you plan to keep pushing that on Xbox 360?

SK: I just read that apparently 65 percent of GTA IV sold is on Xbox 360, which is huge. That's a great victory for us. I'm pretty sure that a lot of the people that have bought GTA IV own both platforms but they are still preferrring to buy it on Xbox 360. And of course we have exclusive downloadable content - and we'll be pushing that very heavily.
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    joshthegreat | May 15, 2008
    65% isn't that huge. From the numbers sold they should be selling about 60% of GTAIV copies. The additional 5% comes from people buying on 360 because of it's downloadable content.

    It's a victory, but I wouldn't call it 'huge', over 'expected'.
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    Lord_80 | May 15, 2008
    You know what though? 65% is 15% over half. Which means that the competition has sold only around 35%. To me thats a victory. A fairly substantial one.
    • 0 thumbs!
      Cdemon | May 15, 2008
      Exactly.

      65% vs 35%?

      Hmmm.
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      Final Blade | May 16, 2008
      Well the 360 version is superior so it isn't a shock really.

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