People Are Still Buying GTA 5; Great Results for an 8-year-old Game
Take-Two's financial results for the last quarter show that people are still buying GTA 5, and how. In the last three months, 5 million copies of the game have been sold.
- Despite being many years old GTA 5 continues to sell. The game recently crossed the 155 million copies mark;
- Sales of all games in the series are closing in on 355 million.
Take-Two Interactive reported its financial results for the second fiscal quarter of this year (July-September). Attention is primarily drawn to the fantastic sales of Grand Theft Auto V, which found five million buyers in the last three months. This set a new record at 155 million copies sold.
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And all the GTA games have sold a total of 355 million copies, massively outclassing other brands Take-Two and 2K Games portfolio. And how are the other games/series doing?
- Red Dead Redemption 2 - 39 million copies. (1 million since last quarter), the RDR - 62 million copies;
- NBA 2K - 118 million ( 6 million);
- Borderlands 3 - 14 million ( 1 million); the Borderlands - 72 million;
- series Civilization - 59 million;
- series BioShock - 38 million;
- The Outer Worlds - 4 million;
- PGA Tour 2K21 - 2.5 million.
Take-Two Interactive can also be moderately pleased with its financial results. Net income is up 2% over last year, at $858.2 million. Sales of digital products (games, DLCs, in-game microtransactions) are responsible for 91% of this result ($779.1 million). The main driving force were: NBA 2K22 and 2K21, GTA Online along with GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2.
