Red Dead Redemption 2 Sells an Estimated 6.23 Million Units in 2 Days at Retail - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 February 2019 / 6,921 Views
The western-themed action adventure game from publisher Rockstar Games and developer Rockstar Studios - Red Dead Redemption 2 - sold 6,233,893 units in two days at retail, according to our estimates. First week sales can be viewed on the VGChartz Global Weekly Chart for the week ending October 27.
Breaking down the sales by platform, the game sold best on the PlayStation 4 with 4,610,964 units sold (74%), compared to 1,622,929 units sold on the Xbox One (26%).
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.
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Will be the second best selling game this gen behind GTAV
Rockstar has no competition
Heeeeey. Don't you guys usually put "first week" even when it was two days? ;) That's still a ton of copies, though!
Wow it clearly sold a ton of digital copies if the VGChartz estimate is more than 10 million units lower! Although the official numbers do include an extra 4 days of sales.
those are shipped.
According to Take-Two, the 17 million is copies sold, not shipped.
Sold to retailers. So, shipped.
On their fiscal report, it says "the title has sold-in over 17 million units worldwide." I thought that meant sold to consumer but I could be wrong.
Sold-in means sold to retailer, ie. shipped. Sold through means sold to consumer.
Oh my bad. Thanks for the clarification!
Wouldn't that be an extra 6 days? Article says VGChartz numbers are 2 days of retail, vs 8 days for the official Rockstar numbers. That means the official numbers are basically a whole extra week of sales, so we won't have a great comparison until we see how big the second week drop off is according to VGChartz.
Sorry I thought it was until the end of October for some reason.
Great game 9/10 sometimes i feel its a bit less due to the horrid horse riding and hostile people for no reason lol
The game sells half its predecessor's lifetime retail sales in just 2 days of retail sales, and you say retail sales are down? Unless you mean as a proportion of total sales, but even then it's still probably 50% retail for the first 8 days, as VGChartz has the first 2 days as over a third of the official 8 day numbers, and the 8 day numbers is sold to retailers, not consumer.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic lol
