GTAV Sales Top 185 Million, GTA Series Sales Top 405M, RDR 2 Sales Top 55M - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 August 2023 / 8,233 Views
Take-Two Interactive has released its latest earnings report for the quarter ending June 30, 2023 and in the report has provided an update on the latest sales figures for its best-selling franchises and provided an update on the sales of individual games.
The Grand Theft Auto series is the best-selling franchise by Take-Two with over 405 million units sold-in. This is up from 400 million units from the previous quarter ending March 31, 2022. It is "one of the most successful, iconic and critically acclaimed brands in all of entertainment," according to Take-Two.
Grand Theft Auto V has sold-in over 185 million units, which is up from 180 million units. It is the "best-selling game of the past 10 years in the U.S., based on both unit and dollar sales."
The Red Dead Redemption series with only two releases have sold-in over 79 million units worldwide, which is up from 75 million units. Red Dead Redemption 2 has sold-in over 55 million units, which is up from 53 million units. It is the second best-selling title in the US over the past five years based on dollar sales.
The NBA 2K series has sold-in over 140 million units worldwide, which is up from 135 million units. It is the best-selling basketball simulation IP in the US based on dollar and unit sales.
The Borderlands series has sold-in over 81 million units worldwide. This is up from 80 million in the previous quarter. Sales reported for Borderlands 2 has sold-in over 27 million, which is the same as the previous quarter. Borderlands 3 has sold-in over 18 million units, which is is up from 17 million units.
Sid Meier’s Civilization series has sold-in over 67 million units, which is the same as the previous quarter. The BioShock series has sold-in nearly 42 million units, which is the same as the previous quarter.
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 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Should reach 200 million by the time GTA 6 comes out.
GTA5 will re,re,remake for next generation consoles
It's crazy GTA 5 keeps selling 5 million every quarter. What's even more crazier is how Take-two keeps losing money every quarter.
I'm a bit out of the loop regarding Minecraft updates. Have they ruined the spirit of the game or something?
He means it would remain multiplatform.
He's upset it isn't exclusive.
I meant it would be multiplatform just as how cod will be
So, insert general statement about how I don't own GTAV but while I'm here, you ever wonder how many games they could have sold (and in turn how much money made) if they made GTA6 like late last gen? I know GTA Online makes them lots of money but GTA6 Online can do the same.
If you're old like me, it's particularly hard to swallow. I remember getting GTA 3 when it came out. One year after that, we got Vice City. And then two years after that, San Andreas for a grand total of three full GTA games in just three years. lol
It's insane how slow development has gotten.
FF was the same a few years before that. FF8 9 and X within years of each other, now we get 1 per gen. I'd like to think it's just how development has gotten more advanced and therefore it takes longer to make games but there are business factors too. As a old timer, I'm sitting here waiting for the next Dragon Age, Tekken, or whatever and seeing years, decade even, between entries.
For DA it was a case of resets and upper management getting in the way, they have only just now gotten over that but 2 whole resets of game development hurts. Tekken, fighting games changed, it's all about the release then DLC now. No longer 3 games per gen all of which I will buy for £50, it's buy 1 game for £50 and get me to buy DLC for £20 each year for 5 years... which I don't do, as I'm old, i don't buy DLC like that and very much disagree with character pay walls. Give me a new game every 3-4 years, yeah, they'll get my money however. They released 6 games in the first 10 years of the games existence, we've had 3 since.
There lies the issue with certain things in modern gaming. You could legit make a new GTA, which sells 15 million in it's first week then 10 mil every quarter but that takes time and effort. Milk the one that is selling 5 mil per quarter instead that you don't have to put any effort into?
If GTA Online making sooo much money, is it not worth making a new updated GTA online as part of 6 to modern standards to make even more? And who's buying GTA5 now? People holding on for the next GTA, they buy GTA5 just to buy something? If you havent' got GTA5 by now, you either don't want it or you were too young when it came out to buy it and are coming of age to buy it.
I do agree with your statement though.
There is risk in launching a new game. People may not like it as much as GTA v, and it may not get the same amount of online play. So by launching GTA 6, they're not guaranteeing more revenue, but they are taking a risk that they will bring in less.
Now, it is likely that GTA 6 will be a big money maker. So that's why it will eventually launch. But "likely" is not the same as the guaranteed success that they have a GTAv.
To be fair I have 3 copies of gta v🤣 and one gamepass copy. Still haven't the campaign 🤣🤣. It's not guaranteed that the new gta will be as successful as gta v. Gtav is the only one that has sold that much. It accounts for basically half of the total franchise sales!. From the business standpoint it's perfect as it's easy cash cow.
There's over 7 billion people and I would imagine there's at least 1-2 billion gamers lol. Must be one of those buying.
