GTA 5 Sales Reach 235 Million Copies, Awaiting GTA 6

The highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI is a little closer: as of today, it's possible to pre-load the game data, ahead of its release which, as you well know, will be on November 19, for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. There's little doubt that Rockstar Games' next title will be a resounding success, but to become the company's biggest hit, it will have to surpass its illustrious predecessor.

Grand Theft Auto Sales

Take Two Interactive has published its financial results, and from the document, we learn that, as of September 30, the Grand Theft Auto franchise had sold a remarkable 480 million copies. Almost half of those, precisely 235 million, were sold by GTA 5 alone. Take Two notes that GTA 5 reached one billion dollars in revenue faster than any other entertainment product in history, a record that could be broken by the sixth installment…

Red Dead Redemption Sales

Those 235 million copies make GTA 5 the second best-selling game in history, behind Minecraft which dominates with 425 million copies (some sources, however, place GTA 5 third and Tetris in the lead with 520 million, but there is no consensus on this point). Immediately behind GTA 5 in the rankings is another title from Rockstar Games: Red Dead Redemption 2, which has sold 89 million copies, out of its franchise's total of 118 million.