More than 90 million copies of Grand Theft Auto V have been solid since its original 2013 launch, and rarely if ever is it available for less than half price. It’s seen GTA 5 bring in revenue of $6 billion, which actually seems fairly conservative once we take into account the murky world of in-game microtransactions.
It now means that Grand Theft Auto 5 has brought in more money than any album, movie, book, or game, ever. GTA 5 has made more money than any Star Wars, Marvel, or Avatar movie, and by some distance. In terms of AAA titles, the second highest grossing title is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, with 26.5 million units.
Scarily, this success doesn’t even show any signs of slowing either. Last year, Rockstar earned over half a billion dollars from GTA Online, almost five years after the game launched. It’s easy to see GTA 5 continue to be a success long after Red Dead Redemption 2’s launch later this year.
There’s also an interesting chart provided with the sales breakdown per platform and I have to say I’m surprised just how much of GTA 5’s success is tilted towards console. This has to call into the doubt the data somewhat. According to SteamSpy, close to 10 million copies of GTA V have been sold on PC, approximately 11% of GTA 5’s total of 90 million sales. Yet in the chart we see PC occupying a tiny 2.1% slice of the piece. This may be somewhat explained by discounted prices or PC players refusing to buy microtransactions, but the gap in the diagram is suspiciously large.
So, do you think Red Dead Redemption 2 can achieve anywhere near this level of success? Could it be about time for GTA 6, or will Rockstar continue milking GTA 5 for as long as it can?
So,only few like myself still didn't buy and play it,eh?
Now I can see why red dead redemption 2 is not coming to PC.
Wait, so pc player base is just at 2.1%. Is that right? How is that possible??!!
Highest peak doesn't tell us much about a game with such a long tail. It just tells us GTA V had a pretty big launch. SteamSpy obviously has quite a large margin for error, but it puts the total owner count just north of 10 million. I suspect the chart may just be outdated.
according to vgchartz, there are 1.33m games sold for PC total, which is a much more believable number, and much more in line with Rockstar have shown us.
That's physical copies sold and VGChartz is notoriously bad for accurate figures because of that. That link I put shows you the margin of error, which is ± 97,170 copies based on 10,143,334 owners. There are 10 million owners of the PC version, fact.
Then GTA V has sold more than 90 million copies, or Rockstar are insert curse word as always.
Everything in that picture is absolute sh*t, sorry.
Instead of just immaturely addressing feedback. Maybe you could provide some insight why the "picture is absolute sh*t".
As it wrote in the article, even on Steam alone (no retail copies/sold directly from Rockstar), the PC makes up 11% of the 90 million milestone.
Also, what is that at the beginning with all GTA games being exclusive to the PS2 before GTA IV? Sorry downvote all you want but for someone who will just quickly scroll through the article (like some other people in the comment section already are), that picture is very misleading (and s*it).
I agree i hate the huge grinds. I don't have enough time… in today's world time is money.