GTA 5 closes in on 200m copies sold
GTA 5 will soon pass the astonishing milestone of having sold 200m copies.
The game currently sits on 195m copies sold to date, with more than five million copies shifted over the past three months, publisher Take-Two revealed in its latest financial results.
If its current momentum continues, GTA 5 will pass the 200m mark before the summer. That’s around 100m more copies sold than Tetris, and behind only Minecraft (which has sold around 300m copies, it’s believed).
Grand Theft Auto has long been a sales juggernaut, but it’s hard to over-emphasise just how lucrative GTA 5 has been, thanks to its evergreen GTA Online service and Shark Cards for in-game currency.
Across the entire GTA franchise, 420m games have been sold to date – meaning GTA 5 alone makes up nearly half of that total. It is the biggest-selling title of the past 10 years in the US, based on both the number of copies sold and the money it has made.
