The latest edition of the cop killing game – Grand Theft Auto V – has managed to sell over 29 million units in just one month helping Take-Two beat Wall Street estimates and lifetime sales of Grand Theft Auto IV.
The 29m units sold represent the number of copies sold to retailers and doesn’t necessarily indicate the actual number of copies that may have reached to end customers; however, the game has been a huge success across the board and has even managed to break seven world records. Take-Two raked in $1.27 billion in revenue for the current fiscal quarter beating Wall Street estimates of $922 million. GTA V garnered $1 billion in revenue within the first three days of its launch with $800 million on the first day itself.
Strauss Zelnick, Chairman and CEO of Take-Two, said in a press release, “The extraordinary success of Grand Theft Auto V illustrates the positive momentum in our business and consumers’ enduring appetite for the highest-quality interactive entertainment.”
Zelnick also revealed that the company has already planned for 10 unique titles for next-generation consoles with “multiple releases slated for fiscal 2015.”
GTA V is only available for Xbox 360 and PS3, but there have been reports that the title will be released for PCs as well.
GTA V has managed to top UK all-format charts during the launch week and then again during third and fourth week after launch leapfrogging FIFA 14, which was on top during its debut week.
