GTA 5 is the best selling game of the past 22 years

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/06/2017 07:32 AM | source: | 33 comment(s)

NPD Group analyst Mat Piscatella has stated in a tweet that GTA 5 is the best selling game since founding its market research company in 1995. Rockstar Games sold over 80 million sold copies.

When Grand Theft Auto 5 was released exclusively for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 back in September 2013, it was soon apparent that the gangster game from Rockstar Games was bound to set some records. The title was able to generate 1 billion US dollars in sales within a few days. Later onwards releases of the Playstation 4 and Xbox, and PC version followed as well.

Mat Piscatella, the market researcher of the NPD Group, has stated in a tweet that Grand Theft Auto 5 is the best selling game of the last 22 years, that's basically because the market research agency was founded in 1995. Hence best selling title eveah? Meanwhile Piscatelle has deleted the tweet.

80 million sold copies go to the account of Rockstar Games for GTA 5. This number is based on distribution over all published platforms. An important factor for the sales probably is also the online mode, which is constantly supplied with new content and thus continues to attract new players. Thinking about this, actually I think minecraft sold more copies?

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Fender178
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#5439846 Posted on: 06/06/2017 08:54 PM

To think, Anita Sarcastical said that games involving killing prostitutes would be unsuccessful...

80 million copies multiplied by $50 equals Anita was wrong to the tune of $4,000,000,000

Erm, lol?

No surprise 'she' has walked away from the games industry and onto the movie industry, because there are still suckers being born there... :puke2:

She is a sexist stupid piece of crap. Its not surprising she would say something that she knows nothing about.

MaCk0y
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#5439870 Posted on: 06/06/2017 10:40 PM

Still have GTA V installed for one reason. Waiting for Vosswar's Simple Aesthetics mod to come out.

BarryB
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#5439892 Posted on: 06/07/2017 12:52 AM

Last GTA i played was 3.

Kinda prefered Top Down.

Wasn't GTA III a 3rd Person view, not Top Down?

I will ALWAYS have GTA V installed, nothing like a good RAMPAGE to make you smile or a carefree drive down the pavement playing 'human skittles' just because you can. It's a very 'politically incorrect' game but that's the fun of it, pity you can't sticky bomb a pram

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