Grand Theft Auto V has already sold 185 million copies

Grand Theft Auto V is one of the biggest phenomena in video game history, a unique case that impacted the business of its studio and publisher, as well as the industry in general. Since its launch in September 2013 there is no week, month, quarter, year in which the game is not mentioned for its sales and today was no exception because it reached a new and impressive figure.

HOW MANY COPIES HAS GRAND THEFT AUTO V SOLD?

Take-Two Interactive presented its corresponding financial report with the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 and in the case of its most successful game there are news in terms of its sales. According to the company, Grand Theft Auto V has already sold 185 million copies, a figure that reaffirms it as the second best-selling video game in the history of the industry, only below Minecraft whose sales exceed 230 million copies. The previous record indicated that GTA V had sold 180 million for the last quarter of fiscal year 2023 but it is known that in this title applies the inevitable question how many millions of players bought it last week?

HOW MANY MILLIONS OF COPIES HAS RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 ALREADY SOLD?

On the other hand, Take-Two and Rockstar Games boasted the sales of another of their jewels: Red Dead Redemption 2. According to the data of the financial report, the title has already sold 55 million copies, a figure that keeps it as the eighth best-selling video game in history and puts it in the hunt for the seventh place occupied by Nintendo's legendary Super Mario Bros..

In this regard, Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, noted that GTA V and GTA Online exceeded quarterly expectations in terms of copy sales and number of users and even highlighted that the average number of players in the online component during June exceeded any record outside the pandemic period.

On the other hand, the executive celebrated the 79 million copies that Red Dead Redemption has sold as a franchise and assured that the company is very satisfied with the results delivered by the IP.

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