Grand Theft Auto V has officially hit “preposterous” levels of financial success: Rockstar has sold-in close to 29 million copies of their latest open-world monstrosity, the corporate overlords at Take-Two announced today.
29 million. Twenty-nine million. I’ll let you stop and pick your jaw up off the floor now.
(Note: “sold-in” means they sold the games to stores, not necessarily to customers. Take-Two isn’t saying how many copies they sold to human beings. (We asked.))
Rockstar says that the game has exceeded “the lifetime sell-in of Grand Theft Auto IV on console in less than six weeks after launch.”
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8 responses to “GTA V Hits 29 Million Sales In Six Weeks”
Shipped is one thing.. Come on to Rickie, human sales please.
I predicted a total of 40 million worldwide lifetime sales. But with the inevitable next gen versions next year and the PC version. Could be more like 60 million…. Dizzy Stuff.
Dizzy never sold 60 million copies 😛
I remember reading an interview with one of the publishers, he was not nearly as optimistic as you and pointed out that sales would be highly front-loaded. I dunno, we’ll see I guess.
Hm. I wonder if they’ll make a sequel…
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Why? So they can make even more money from the franchise? pfffft yeah right what company would ever want to do that. 😛
According to vgchartz.com the game has sold 23.5 million copies to gamers.
I wouldn’t trust vgchartz.com, their “all time sales” table is ridiculously incorrect. You’re actually better off checking the references of the Wikipedia (gasp!) list of video game sales.