Within a week of its release GTA IV video game has smashed all the highest sales record of any video game. On the 1st day of its release itself a record 609,000 copies worth approximately £24.4m ($48.5m) were sold. Earlier this record was with GTA: San Andreas selling 501,000 copies within 1 day of its release in October 2004.

Despite of its successful opening there are reports of software problems and crashes. Initially it was thought that the game is facing problem on running 60GB version of PlayStations. But it seems that running the game is affected on other PlayStation models. Gamers who bought version for Xbox 360 are also facing problems in running the game.

The manufacturers of the GTA game series Rockstar acknowledged the problem and reported that it is working to fix the problem. Even the makers experienced same problem in the month of March. Hence they launched another game with the title “Bully” on Xbox 360.

In order to fix the software problem Rockstar released a software patch. The latest reports of crashes might overshadow the record-breaking title of GTA IV. Despite the crash reports the reviews are in favor of the GTA IV game. According to the Gamerancking.com report the GTA IV game has an average review score of 98.7%.

According to the Eurogamer, a UK based games website GTA IV is the game of the year and gave the game 10 on 10 review score. The cost of the title is estimated to be $100 million but the makers are confident that it will easily recover the title cost.

If Chart Track is to be believed then GTA IV has already smashed the highest sales record within 24 hours of its release. Besides that it has also set new sales records for any game on both the Xbox and PS3 versions.