GTA 5 will quickly cross the astonishing milestone of getting offered 200m copies.
The sport at the moment sits on 195m copies offered up to now, with greater than 5 million copies shifted over the previous three months, writer Take-Two revealed in its newest monetary outcomes.
If its present momentum continues, GTA 5 will cross the 200m mark earlier than the summer time. That is round 100m extra copies offered than Tetris, and behind solely Minecraft (which has offered round 300m copies, it is believed).
Grand Theft Auto has lengthy been a gross sales juggernaut, but it surely’s onerous to over-emphasise simply how profitable GTA 5 has been, because of its evergreen GTA On-line service and Shark Playing cards for in-game forex.
Throughout the whole GTA franchise, 420m video games have been offered up to now – that means GTA 5 alone makes up almost half of that whole. It’s the biggest-selling title of the previous 10 years within the US, primarily based on each the variety of copies offered and the cash it has made.
In fact, GTA 5 has had loads of time on sale to hit these 195m copies – it initially launched in September 2013 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, earlier than PS4 and Xbox One ports arrived the next 12 months. GTA 5 lastly launched for PC in 2015, after which popped up seven years later for PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S in 2022.
Spare a thought for Purple Useless Redemption 2, which might solely boast of being the second best-selling recreation within the US since its launch six years in the past – behind, in fact, GTA 5.
Purple Useless Redemption 2 has now offered an unimaginable 61m copies – an enormous quantity that solely sounds small compared to GTA5! – and excess of the 27m copies offered by Purple Useless Redemption 1.
Subsequent up from Rockstar? Nicely, that’d be somewhat recreation named GTA 6. The primary GTA 6 trailer was launched in December – although I am certain we need not let you know that.
When will GTA 6 launch? Ubisoft has pegged its launch for someday later in 2025.
