Guinness World Records Editor-in-Chief, Craig Glenday, said: "GTA totally deserves to be recognized as an icon of modern British culture, and we're thrilled to be able to feature the game in the record books.
The figure smashes records previously held by the Call of Duty videogame series and blockbuster movies including The Avengers and Avatar.
Released on 17 September 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles, the fifteenth title in the Grand Theft Auto series, GTA V, was the first main entry since Grand Theft Auto IV in 2008.ĭeveloped by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games, the critically acclaimed open world action-adventure video game sold 11.21 million units in its first 24 hours, and generated revenue of $815.7 million (£511.8 million), going on to reach $1 billion (£624.45 million) in sales after just three days on September 20 2013. and everyone is stuck indoors.Guinness World Records can today confirm that the launch of Grand Theft Auto V has broken six new world records including the Highest revenue generated by an entertainment product in 24 hours and the Fastest entertainment property to gross $1 billion. It's likely we can expect to see those numbers go up even further now that GTA 5 is now claimable for free.
"This exceptional engagement helped to drive recurrent consumer spending growth of 87 per cent during the fourth quarter and 40 per cent for the full fiscal year, new records in both periods", CEO Strauss Zelnick added. 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".Īs for the online portion of GTA 5, it's continuing to make bank for Take-Two, as the company reported its best ever monthly active users for GTA Online in July and August 2019, "and then grew sequentially each month" from December 2019 to March 2020. The latter, developed by Obsidian, has now become publisher Private Division's most successful title. 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). This content is hosted on an external platform, which will only display it if you accept targeting cookies.
GTAV doesn't include free copies via Epic Store /I60UnQM2Eo- Daniel Ahmad May 20, 2020
And that's before we even consider how many people downloaded it for free via the Epic Games Store.įor 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). In Feburary earlier this year, Rockstar reported that 120m copies had been sold, meaning a further 10m copies were shifted in the last quarter.
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.