A lot is missing? Rockstar Games has gotten used to living off rent
Create fame and go to sleep. The first GTA of the 3D era, grand theft auto iii came out in 2001. Barely a year later, the studio surprised us with an even more impressive game; Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. And to culminate a fantastic trilogy, at the end of 2004 came Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Four years had to pass before we saw the fourth part, but in between, Rockstar Games was releasing some spin offs of your franchise, minimizing the wait a bit. After all, GTA IV had a very important graphic and physics jump.
GTA V Yes, it took a long time, but nothing compared to the drought of titles that we have had since then. Rockstar Games has dedicated its efforts to porting GTA V systematically. There are already three generations of consoles that support the aforementioned game.
Does Grand Theft Auto sell that much?
Well yes. At the last conference Take-Two financial results it was announced that Grand Theft Auto V has already sold 160 million copies. And this is independent of the income that the company receives from the micro transactions of GTA 5 Online,
On the other hand, the parent company acknowledged that Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition It had sold better than expected. Come on, not even they expected to strain such nonsense.
How much does GTA sell compared to other franchises?
Hold on, because the comparison is a bit dizzying. These are the data collected by Jason Schreirer:
- Only GTA V has sold more units than the entire Assassin’s Creed saga, which by the end of 2020 had 155 million copies.
- The last Rockstar Games game would have sold similar to the entire Final Fantasy sagawhich has accumulated 164 million sales.
- Too would have surpassed the entire Resident Evil sagawhich at the end of 2021 had a record of 123 million sales.
the entire franchise of Grand Theft Auto since its inception already adds more than 370 million copies sold.
Will still sell more from March
next March 15, Grand Theft Auto V coming to next-gen consoles. We do not know if there is still someone who has not played this title, but it is obvious, seeing the trajectory, that the arrival of the game on Xbox Series and PlayStation 5 will result in a new sales pull.
And not only that. Rockstar Games is well aware that many gamers they are not willing to buy the game for the third or fourth time consecutive. Therefore, for those same consoles, the developer has prepared Grand Theft Auto Online in an independent way. In this way, many will continue to play the online version on their new PS5s and spend money on micropayments on the platform.
