Before GTA 6: New success numbers for GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2

Publisher Take-Two Interactive recently published the figures for the first quarter of its 2023 fiscal year, including current sales figures for its leading game brands, including Grand Theft Auto from developer Rockstar Games. GTA 5 continues to be a huge success for the company, with nearly 170 million units sold, with the last major milestone hitting 165 million units in May this year.

According to figures from market researchers at the NPD Group, GTA 5 (buy now €189.95) remains the best-selling game of the past decade in the United States by unit and dollar sales, and remains Take-Two’s biggest success to date, while also famously holding the record for fastest retail sales for any release to have reached $1 billion.

According to the annual report, GTA Online should be as popular as ever, although no specific figures were given. GTA 6, meanwhile, is rumored to be out in fiscal 2024 at the earliest, which runs from April 2023 to March 2024, but it could also be later.

RDR2 as the second draft horse

Although the supply of Red Dead Online with new content was stopped in favor of GTA 6 development, Red Dead Redemption 2 from Rockstar Games has continued to sell well according to the figures for the first quarter of the 2023 financial year: Since the release in October 2018 to have sold over 45 million units, representing one million additional sales since the last major milestone of over 44 million in May 2022.

Overall, the franchise and its predecessor have sold over 68 million copies worldwide, while Red Dead Redemption 2 is the second best-selling game in the United States over the past five years based on NPD Group dollar sales data. In the face of the development work for GTA 6, this is said to have meant the end of a remaster of the predecessor and an RDR2 upgrade for the current consoles.

Source: Take Two via Gamingbolt.com (1), (2)