Writer Take-Two Interactive has introduced one other milestone for Grand Theft Auto V with 170 million items bought, whereas Pink Lifeless Redemption has hit the 70 million mark.
Throughout Take-Two’s quarterly earnings name, the corporate’s investor presentation revealed gross sales numbers for each sequence. As a franchise, Grand Theft Auto has bought greater than 385 million items, with 170 million of these attributed to GTA 5.
As identified by @DomsPlaying on Twitter, that’s a smaller soar from the “practically 170 million” talked about in Take-Two’s final earnings report. In that very same report, GTA 5 bought round 5 million copies in a single quarter. Talking to GamesIndustry.biz, Take-Two govt VP of finance Hannah Sage famous the corporate solely updates GTA 5’s gross sales in increments of 5 million.
As for Pink Lifeless Redemption, gross sales are up by one other 2 million items for the reason that writer’s final earnings name. The franchise, which incorporates each Pink Lifeless Redemption 1 and a couple of, has bought 70 million items worldwide.
Again in August, Take-Two had an optimistic outlook on its cellular future after the Zynga acquisition. Nonetheless, Barrons highlights that the monetary forecast took a dip, with cuts for the fiscal yr outlook attributed to a weakened world financial system and diminished cellular spending.
Regardless, each Rockstar Video games’ sequence have crushed trade data for years now. GTA 5 made $1 billion in retail gross sales sooner than every other leisure launch in historical past, a feat it achieved in solely three days. And regardless of being a decade outdated, the developer remains to be pushing out next-gen patches for its open-world heists.
Andrea Shearon is a contract contributor for IGN protecting video games and leisure. She’s worn a number of hats over her seven-year profession within the video games trade, with bylines over at Fanbyte, USA At present’s FTW, TheGamer, VG247, and RPG Web site. Discover her on Twitter (@Maajora) or the Materia Possessions podcast chatting about FFXIV, RPGs, and any sequence involving large robots.
