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Grand Theft Auto V has now sold approximately 200 million copies

Draugoth

Draugoth

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Grand Theft Auto 5 has now sold approximately 200 million copies.

That’s according to publisher Take-Two, revealing the figure ahead of the company’s earnings call on Thursday.

The game, which was originally released in 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, was later rereleased on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and then later on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X.

According to previous figures, the game had shipped 180 million units as of March 2023, up from 175 million three months earlier. The game continues to consistently appear on best-seller lists in the decade since its original release.
 
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Kilau

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R6Rider said:
I bought it 3 times.

I regret nothing.
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I bought 3 times on PlayStation alone…
 
rm082e

rm082e

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Diddy X said:
You are not missing much, I finished a couple months ago for the first time and I think even IV, which I found dissapointing, was a better experience.
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I tried to play 3 and 4. Both times, I got to the first chase sequence, I got too far away from the person I was supposed to be chasing, and the game failed me several times in a row. I just turned it off and played something else.
 
Kataploom

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rm082e said:
I have still never played it. :messenger_neutral:
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Neither me and almost none of my friends or people I know IRL... It makes me wonder where those sales come from. Hell Minecraft, Mario Kart 8, League Of Legends... Those are games I can easily see people playing or at least having the game for whatever reason but never GTAV
 
nush

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I only brought it twice, £5 for the next gen version that I played for about an hour to see 1st person mode.
 
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Last Hearth

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rm082e said:
I tried to play 3 and 4. Both times, I got to the first chase sequence, I got too far away from the person I was supposed to be chasing, and the game failed me several times in a row. I just turned it off and played something else.
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It's kind of my experience with all GTA games, I hate the mission structure of these games, the third time I fail a mission I'm pretty much done with the game, because the core game loop of shooting and driving isn't fun enough for me to want to keep repeating the same mission.
I end up them just screw around in the game, run over pedestrians, car jack some one, have a shoot out with the police, check out the strip club, and after a couple of hours of that I'm done with the game.
The thing is I always getting suckered in by the hype and buy the game, bought III, Vice, San Andreas, IV, finally with V I held off and got a free copy from Epic years later, and yup, exactly the same experience. IV was the only one I made any significant progress in the main campaign, just because I liked the main character, but even that one I don't think got through even half of the main campaign.
 
S0ULZB0URNE

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Kataploom said:
Neither me and almost none of my friends or people I know IRL... It makes me wonder where those sales come from. Hell Minecraft, Mario Kart 8, League Of Legends... Those are games I can easily see people playing or at least having the game for whatever reason but never GTAV
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Top selling console games always are bought for children.
GTA,COD for example and sadly the parents buy em.
 
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rm082e

rm082e

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Last Hearth said:
It's kind of my experience with all GTA games, I hate the mission structure of these games, the third time I fail a mission I'm pretty much done with the game, because the core game loop of shooting and driving isn't fun enough for me to want to keep repeating the same mission.
I end up them just screw around in the game, run over pedestrians, car jack some one, have a shoot out with the police, check out the strip club, and after a couple of hours of that I'm done with the game.
The thing is I always getting suckered in by the hype and buy the game, bought III, Vice, San Andreas, IV, finally with V I held off and got a free copy from Epic years later, and yup, exactly the same experience. IV was the only one I made any significant progress in the main campaign, just because I liked the main character, but even that one I don't think got through even half of the main campaign.
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I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one. I've felt like a weirdo for years seeing all these people go nuts over these games.

I even like the open world structure. I like Assassin's Creed Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla. I also like FarCry 3-6. I really liked Days Gone. But GTA just always...bleh...
 
Kataploom

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S0ULZB0URNE said:
Top selling console games always are bought for children.
GTA,COD for example and sadly the parents buy em.
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I don't think you're supposed to sell that much only selling to children and fans lol, I'm yet to see any child with MK8 and it have "only" sold 60M, yet I see many adults Switch owners with the game, same for stuff like God Of War reboots
 
S0ULZB0URNE

S0ULZB0URNE

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Kataploom said:
I don't think you're supposed to sell that much only selling to children and fans lol, I'm yet to see any child with MK8 and it have "only" sold 60M, yet I see many adults Switch owners with the game, same for stuff like God Of War reboots
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Not only of course but go into the lobbies to these games and it's not much different than Fortnite...

If I'm not mistaken a study was done some years back and it had females being the biggest game buyers. We know they are buying for little Jimmy.
 
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SHA

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That number indicates we don't need a sequel cause no one cares, from a business perspective that's really scary.
 
rofif

rofif

Can’t Git Gud
Casual crap.
Story worse than 4.
Multiple characters bs.
Worse sandbox than 4 because worse physics.
It’s a good game but I think 4 was better in every way.

Undeserved sales.
 
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Hypereides

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That's an immense amount of double, triple and quadruple dipping.

I still haven't bought it and probably never will, lol. I dig OG Rockstar, but GTAV and its online component is the embodiment of where it really started to go wrong with gaming. At least, in regards to AAA.
 
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Roman Empire

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I bought it 3 times. I regret it. Not that it's a bad game, but by the time it came out on PC I was already over my GTA hype. Rockstar games, beyond the campaign, don't do it for me anymore.
 
Majormaxxx

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German Hops said:
Bro, that is plain wrong. 😡
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I agree, forcing me to buy it three times is plain wrong. Should have been a free next gen upgrade.

Considering getting it for my ps5 because of their greedy money making scheme of not releasing a next gen patch but will wait for the price to drop more.
 
Robb

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Insane numbers. Doubt they’ll be able to replicate it with the next one though, especially considering all the streaming services etc. nowadays.

I’ve never bought a single copy.
 
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