Grand Theft Auto V Sales Top 40 Million Worldwide - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 January 2015 / 35,524 Views
Rockstar has had a runaway success with Grand Theft Auto V. The game set records when it launched in September 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The next generation versions of the game for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One has helped the game hit a new milestone.
Grand Theft Auto V has sold more than 40 million units worldwide, as of the week ending December 20, according to VGChartz. The game has sold 40.56 million units. The game has sold 16.97 million units in the US and 15.68 million units in Europe.
The PlayStation 3 version accounts for nearly half of the all the sales. The game has sold 19.24 million units worldwide on the PlayStation 3. The Xbox 360 version has sold 17.79 million units. The PlayStation 4 version has sold 4.73 million units, while the Xbox One version has sold 1.81 million units.
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Congrats to the creators. They should have released the PC version earlier, but what can you do. I'm sure they'll be swimming in money for a long time.
Such a beautiful game, the X360 version of it uses every trick in the book from the console hard to imagine a game so massive and lovely looking is on a machine dated 2005. Great work from Rockstar making that the success that it is. Lovely to see the generations not end with Cawadooty as the highest games sold on the ps/360
You have a typo in your Xbox 360 sales, it's actually 14.79m not 17.79m.
Constant mistakes in this guy's articles
19.24 + 17.79 + 4.73 + 1.81 = 43.57 -> 43.57 > 40.56 -> tsk tsk...
He makes a lot of mistakes usually to do with maths ,he should double check his figures more often , but the most annoying thing is his reluctance to own up to and fix those mistakes
this game made rockstar(assuming most games were bought at $60)
$2400000000
holy shit
a few $80 versions to make up for any $40 ones
Probably a more than that. Digital sales.
I'm sure they made more than $2.5 billion on GTAV. As platformmaster says the game cost what amounts to $80+ at launch in a lot of countries around the world.
Here in Scandinavia the PS3/360 version still costs $50 and the PS4/XB1 version $70.
I'm happy a game of this caliber achieved this milestone.
Once they release the PC version they'll be swimming in even more money for sure, kudos to R*.
