Take-Two Interactive Announces 'GTA 5' Global Sales Exceed 200 Million Copies
TapTechNews May 17 news, Take-Two Interactive recently announced that the global sales of Grand Theft Auto V (GTA 5) have exceeded 200 million copies. Since its first release in 2013 on the PS3 and Xbox 360 platforms, the game has been ported to PC, PS4, Xbox One, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, among other platforms.
Referring to TapTechNews' previous report, the shipment volume of this work was 185 million in August 2023. This means that another 20 million copies of the game were sold in just 9 months, averaging 5 million sales every three months. For a game that has been released for over a decade, such sales speed is astonishing, and we still do not know who is still buying GTA 5.
On the Wikipedia game sales chart, only Minecraft surpasses GTA 5 currently. As of October 2023, the total sales of Minecraft on various platforms exceeded 300 million.
In comparison, another major work under Take-Two, Red Dead Redemption 2, has accumulated sales of 64 million since its release six years ago (2018).
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