![]() ![]() In December of 2014, a little over a year since release, GTA 5 shipped 45 million copies, including 10 million copies of the new re-release for next-gen consoles.īy April 2018, it had made $6 billion and was estimated to be the most profit-generating entertainment product in history, in part as well from revenue generated from GTA Online microtransactions, in addition to the base sales of the game.Īs it stands today, GTA 5 has sold 180 million copies. Just six weeks after release, GTA 5 had shipped 29 million copies, which already exceeded the lifetime sales of GTA 4. For context, a decade later, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom just sold 10 million copies in its first three days, which is considering insane even in present day. In 2013, with 24 hours, Grand Theft Auto 5 sold $815 million or about 11.21 million copies, double analyst predictions. Update: I think we need a little more context on the scale of GTA 5, to understand just why Take-Two’s lofty promises here make more sense: ![]() GTA 6 will be massive, and now, it appears like it may be just over two years away. However, a GTA 6 release that isn’t ready would be even worse, a-la-Cyberpunk (sorry Cyberpunk but you will never not be brought up in conversations like this). A delay out of that would likely produce major downturns for their stock. But with 11 years since the last game, I think Rockstar may be in a better position than other studios to pick a date and stick with it, particularly when they’re making these enormous revenue forecasts for that specific time periods. Most AAA game are delayed at least a few times these days, and whatever date you hear first, it might be 3-18 months before the game is actually released. Of course there is also the possibility of a delay. Still, given that GTA 6 is probably going to end up being one of the most anticipated games of all time, I would not bet against it. But even within the GTA franchise, GTA 5 is a huge outlier. Gamers will need to wait for Rockstar to officially announce the title before anything is certain, but the the way some of these rumors have tracked over the course of the past year has raised the collective eyebrow of GTA's online fanbase, and most signs suggest it's eyeing a 2025 release at the earliest.It is likely that with the continued expansion of the video game industry over the past decade, GTA 6, barring any disasters, will probably be the fastest selling game in history, beating GTA 5’s $1 billion in three days, and depending on its long-term prospects, in theory could go on to outsell GTA 5 over the long, long term. That image turned out to be completely accurate, which is why fans didn't want to rule out the possibility that something similar happened during GTA 6's development. ![]() An early version of RDR2's map was leaked two years before the Western's launch. There's not much evidence to go off of, but Rockstar's game maps have leaked in the past. What if the first patch of drawings were real and years after that leak Rockstar had added more details to the island where GTA 6 would eventually take place? Those original images were almost immediately shunned as being bogus because of how crudely drawn they appeared, but subsequent image that surfaced in October made fans rethink their conclusion. The map was originally posted to online forum 4chan and depicted a nondescript island that is extremely similar to an island seen in an even earlier alleged GTA 6 map leak posted in December 2018. In October, an allegedly leaked image of GTA 6's world map appeared online that once again revived hopes that the title is destined to return to Vice City. He doesn't often name his sources in stories that contain sensitive company information, but he's a journalist who attaches his name and reputation to his stories as opposed to anonymous leakers. Schreier cited anonymous sources for these claims, but he has been reporting on the politics and working conditions of the gaming industry for years. He then clarified on Twitter that the next GTA installment is " still a ways away," nixing any hope fans had of getting an announcement sometime soon. Schreier had revealed that GTA 6 was actively in development at Rockstar, a crucial detail that had yet to be confirmed at the time. Related: Is GTA Online's Massive Update What's Holding Up GTA 6 Then in April 2020, games journalist Jason Schreier published a lengthy feature in Kotakuthat explained Rockstar's company-wide effort to reduce the amount of crunch it puts its developers through, which included a juicy tidbit of GTA 6 news. The Project Americas rumors stirred up a plethora of less-than-legitimate speculations and phony release date chatter. ![]()
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