GTA 5 sold five million more copies in the last three months alone

Rockstar’s money printer goes on printing money

Marco Wutz | Nov 9, 2023

GTA 5 sold five million more copies in the last three months alone /

After yesterday’s confirmation that a Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer would drop in December 2023, Rockstar Games’ parent company Take-Two has released its financial results for the latest quarter. While net bookings were down 4% compared to the same period last year, Take-Two raked in $1.4 billion USD in the second quarter of FY 2024.

Take-Two highlighted the performance of Rockstar Games’ GTA 5, GTA Online, and Red Dead Redemption 2. GTA 5 alone sold another five million copies in the last quarter, bringing it to 190 million lifetime sales. Red Dead Redemption 2 added another two million sales, up to a total of 57 million.

GTA 5 screenshot of a character on the phone. — "Hey, your quarterly boatload of money has arrived." / Rockstar

This raises the GTA franchise’s total sales to 410 million, while its Wild West counterpart went up to a total of 81 million units.

If you’re asking yourself why you had to wait for this long to hear anything official about GTA 6, then you’ve got the answer right here: GTA 5 is printing money, so Rockstar has all the time in the world to make the next title.

Strauss Zelnick, Chairman and CEO of Take-Two, commented: “Looking ahead, I am optimistic about our company’s multi-year growth trajectory and our ability to deliver long-term value for our shareholders. Our development pipeline is robust and diverse, and we are getting closer to delivering the groundbreaking titles that our audiences throughout the world have been anticipating. With an unwavering commitment to being the most creative, the most innovative, and the most efficient entertainment company, I have great confidence that our offerings will surpass our players’ expectations and set new standards of creative excellence in our industry.”

One of the “groundbreaking titles that our audiences throughout the world have been anticipating” that is getting “closer” is sure to be GTA 6.

Take-Two’s other workhorses in the last quarter have been NBA 2K23 and NBA 2K24 alongside a portfolio of mobile games.

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Published Nov 9, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg