Red Dead Redemption 2 Earns $725 Million in 3 Days - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 November 2018 / 4,461 Views

Rockstar Games announced Red Dead Redemption 2 earned over $725 million in just three days.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is now the second biggest three day opening in the history of entertainment. The current record holder is Grand Theft Auto V with over $1 billion earned.

Here are the records set by the game:

Biggest opening weekend in retail sell-through across all entertainment releases
Second biggest launch (three days) in retail sell-through across all entertainment releases
Biggest entertainment launch of 2018
Most pre-ordered full game ever on PlayStation Network
Biggest day one full game sales ever on PlayStation Network
Biggest first three days full game sales ever on PlayStation Network

Thanks Gematsu.

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.

7 Comments

Azzanation (on 31 October 2018)

Hopefully the overworked employees can take some of that home after there extremely good efforts.

fuallmofus Azzanation (on 31 October 2018)

no they alrdy crunching for GTA6

StriderKiwi (on 30 October 2018)

Very impressive. It wouldn't be fair to expect RD2 to match GTAV's but like GTA, it'll have great legs over the next couple months thanks to the online mode and the fact that RD seems to get on most gamers radars. If I was the competition (CoD, BFV) I'd be worried.