Take-Two had a reasonably busy few days, saying the delay of GTA 6 and all. However there was one other attention-grabbing tidbit of reports to be discovered contained in the investor report.
That’s proper, everyone’s favorite cowboy simulator Purple Useless Redemption 2 has sold-in a staggering 79 million copies, which brings the franchise as much as a complete of 106 million models bought.
Be aware: sold-in is a time period used to imply copies that have been bought to retailer, whereas sold-through refers to copies truly bought from retailer to buyer.
That 79 million copies means Purple Useless Redemption 2 is now the 4th best-selling sport of all time. The Wikipedia web page has already been up to date, exhibiting that cowboys are actually higher than Mario in a go-kart by roughly 980k copies. Suck on that, plumber.
It’ll very doubtless seize third place quickly as effectively, presently occupied by Wii Sports activities which has bought 82.9 million copies.
As soon as it grabs third place on the leaderboard, Rockstar will formally have two of three best-selling video games of all time, with GTA IV boasting 220 million bought in 2nd place.
Minecraft is the present leaderboard king, at 350 million copies and counting.
In fact, when GTA 6 lastly will get its arse in gear and truly launches, there’s an excellent likelihood it’ll catapult itself up that board at a fee which is able to make heads spin and inventory costs head for the Moon.
Apparently, whereas Take-Two was pleased to boast particular numbers for RDR2, they nonetheless haven’t issued any official gross sales knowledge for Borderlands 4 which Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick described as being “softer” than anticipated. Then once more, they identical doc additionally didn’t embody numbers for Mafia: The Outdated Nation which they appear very happy with, so I assume we simply don’t get numbers nowadays till they enter the realms of oh my god, it bought how a lot!?