If the recent crashing of the Epic Games Store wasn’t enough to convince you of the ridiculous popularity of this nearly seven year-old game, maybe the latest sales figures will, as Take-Two has announced GTA 5 has now shifted 130m copies worldwide.
In Feburary earlier this year, Rockstar reported that 120m copies had been sold, meaning a further 10m copies were shifted in the last quarter. And that’s before we even consider how many people downloaded it for free via the Epic Games Store.
For further context, one of the only paid games to have topped this number is Minecraft, which a couple of days ago reported it had sold 200m copies globally (via The Verge).
Update to Take Two title sales:
Grand Theft Auto V – 130 million units
Red Dead Redemption 2 – 31 million units
NBA 2K20 – 12 million units (+33% vs 2K19)
Borderlands 3 – 10 million units
The Outer Worlds – 2.5 million unitsGTAV doesn’t include free copies via Epic Store pic.twitter.com/I60UnQM2Eo
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The new figures come from Take-Two’s latest earnings report, which also details high numbers for other titles including Red Dead Redemption 2 (31m units) and The Outer Worlds (2.5m units). The latter, developed by Obsidian, has now become publisher Private Division’s most successful title. Borderlands 3 outperformed Take-Two’s expectations to sell over 10m copies, an increase of 50 per cent over its predecessor Borderlands 2 “in the same period”.