Grand Theft Auto 5, an 11-year-old sport that is been launched on three generations of consoles and which continues to promote roughly 5 million copies each three months, has finally surpassed an enormous milestone: over 200 million copies bought in its lifetime.
This information comes from Take-Two’s earnings report immediately. For years now, we have been reporting, like clockwork, that GTA 5 has bought one other 5 million copies each quarter. It has merely by no means slowed down! The success of GTA On-line has been an enormous a part of this, however GTA 5 by itself is a beloved hit that is launched throughout the final three console generations and netted a coveted 10/10 after we reviewed it again within the day.
Elsewhere within the earnings, Take-Two additionally notes that the 6-year-old Pink Lifeless Redemption 2 has bought 64 million items worldwide.
GTA 5’s unimaginable gross sales over greater than a decade have ensured it a spot among the many best-selling video games of all time, the place it has been for some time. It is lengthy since surpassed the gross sales of Wii Sports activities (over 82 million copies) and PUBG (75 million finally depend), and even its Rockstar sibling Pink Lifeless Redemption 2 has *solely* bought over a large 61 million compared.
In reality, the one two video games which have accomplished higher than GTA 5 are Tetris, and Minecraft. Minecraft has bought over 300 million copies as of October 2023, which incorporates its gross sales throughout the entire many, many platforms it is launched on. And Tetris stays undisputably the best-selling sport of all time, having bought over 520 million copies, together with 425 million paid cell downloads and 35 million on the Recreation Boy alone.
Will GTA 5 gross sales ever decelerate? Maybe, with GTA 6 looming on the horizon. However with a launch date set for 2025, GTA 5 has a bit of extra time on its arms to maintain racking up gross sales earlier than it is doubtlessly outshone by its new sibling.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Obtained a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.
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