GTA 5 sold five one thousand thousand copies during the last iii months alone, bringing the game'southward lifetime sales to more than 155 million units.

If you were ane of the first to selection up a copy of GTA 5 eight long years ago, you probably didn't recall y'all would still be playing that game in 2021. Odds are you also wouldn't have idea that not just is GTA vi non here withal, merely there has been no official word on when it will be. Rumors suggest the adjacent new GTA game won't exist here until at to the lowest degree 2025.

Past that fourth dimension it volition have been 12 years since GTA five launched. If its ongoing authority continues, and there's no reason to believe it won't, GTA 5 volition likely have surpassed 200 million copies sold past and then. Take-Two reported its revenue for the terminal quarter this week, during which it revealed GTA 5 has sold some other five million copies.

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That means the game has now shifted more than 155 million copies worldwide. The simply game to have sold more than than that is Minecraft which has sold 238 million copies and counting. To put GTA 5's 155 million copies into perspective, the original Sonic the Hedgehog didn't quite striking 24 million, critically acclaimed The Witcher iii has sold 30 one thousand thousand, and the adjacent best-selling GTA game, San Andreas shifted 27.five million copies.

All respectable numbers for incredibly successful games, only all pale in comparison to GTA five. The GTA 5 train isn't going to be slowing down anytime before long either. The enhanced edition of the game launches on PS5 and Xbox Series 10|S in 2022. Its trailer might exist ane of Rockstar's most disliked videos, but there's no doubt it well farther boost GTA 5's sales.

If y'all don't fancy buying GTA 5 on what will be its tertiary generation of consoles, and so Rockstar has you covered on that front end too. We are at present just a calendar week away from the inflow of the long-rumored remastered trilogy which was confirmed by the studio last calendar month. The digital version of The Definitive Edition launches November 11 with a physical edition coming a lilliputian less than a month later on December 7.

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