No doubt about it: Grand Theft Auto V is one of the biggest games of all time. On its debut in fall 2013, Rockstar North’s open-world criminal simulator nabbed seven world records, including the best-selling video game in its first 24 hours and the fastest video game to net $1 billion in revenue. Grand Theft Auto V moved over 15 million units in its first ten days, and went on to become the best-selling title of 2013, despite the fact that it was only available on last-generation consoles.
After delayed multiplayer content and a well-publicized lawsuit filed by starlet Lindsay Lohan, Grand Theft Auto V is still going strong. Last fall, Rockstar released an updated version of Grand Theft Auto V which brought the title to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One and added a game-changing first-person mode. That was enough to push the game past Call of Duty: Black Ops on the United Kingdom’s sales charts, making it the best-selling game in the UK ever.
Now, Rockstar can put another feather in its cap: according to VGChartz, Grand Theft Auto V has sold over 40 million copies worldwide (the initial news release puts the number around 40.56 million units, although adding up the provided sales figures yields a total closer to 43.5 million). That’s a lot of Grand Theft Auto.
Most of those sales came from the initial, last-generation version of the game, with the PlayStation 3 edition leading the way at 19.24 million copies, and the Xbox 360 edition close behind at 17.79 million. The PlayStation 4 is clearly the dominant platform for the current-generation port, with 4.73 million units sold to the Xbox One’s 1.81.
If those figures hold up, it’ll mean that Grand Theft Auto V is the second highest-selling console game of all time (cumulatively, Minecraft sold around 54 million units, but roughly a third of those sales came from the PC and Mac versions of the game). As a point of comparison, the original Super Mario Bros. only sold 40.24 million copies, and that was not only included with the original Nintendo Entertainment System, but is often considered the greatest game ever made.
The news gets better for Rockstar, too: the PC version of Grand Theft Auto V still hasn’t come out yet (hopefully, it’ll release later this month), while the imminent addition of long-awaited multiplayer heists will likely move more copies across all platforms.
Grand Theft Auto V shows no sign of slowing down; while the game probably won’t catch Wii Sports and its 82.54 million sales, all available evidence indicates that Rockstar will be riding the Grand Theft Auto gravy train for years to come.
Source: VGChartz
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well deserved, rockstar hands down are the best games developer. gta v is an amazing game and unmatched by anything else.
NOW GIVE US RED DEAD 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lolno. Rockstar makes lots of mistakes – just look at GTA Online. Their games often lack depth, and tend to be extremely buggy at release. Remember the GTA V garage glitch?
Valve, Nintendo, and Naughty Dog are much more deserving of the title.
In any case, it still won’t come anywhere close to SMB’s actual number. The GTA V number counts re-releases, whereas the SMB one does not. SMB’s original version isn’t even the best-selling one, so you’re looking at at least twice its current sales if you include re-releases.
In other words, GTA still has nothing on SMB.
What a pointless, pathetic reply. No one gives a s***. It’s a report about numbers, not an opinion piece.
Unfortunately for you, the numbers support SMB. Go look at the ENA sales data, you’ll see that SMB’s total sales, including re-releases, beat out GTA V by a ton.
It’s not fair to count GTA V re-releases, but ignore SMB ones. Either we ignore re-releases, in which case SMB wins by about 30 million, or we include SMB re-releases as well, in which case it wins by 90 million.
Nintendo sucks, this game isn’t on Pee U Is probably why it’s bombing.
…Lol. The WiiU is outselling the X1 both in total and monthly sales, and is only 2 million behind the PS4. It’s anything BUT bombing.
Why would you comment on something you know nothing about? What compels you to do that?
yea, because breaking 7 records is considered nothing -_-
…Wanna know how many records SMB broke? That game essentially saved the industry.
Holy crap, this comment made me want to shoot myself in the head seven times. Luckily I’m not actually suicidal. One question. You have any idea how much detail and effort goes into GTA? I don’t know if you ever noticed all the graphical detail, physical detail, NPC behaviour detail, and countless other things. Hell, IGN made a list of 100 amazing little things in GTA 5 that most idiots like you won’t notice. Sure, Valve and Naughty Dogs are amazing developers, but Nintendo has nothing on Rockstar. All of their games are just sequels/remakes of games from their glory days, with little new things. Also, the graphics in Nintendo games have no detail. Face it, those type of games were great for it’s time, but we live in a different era of gaming now. An era of cinematic storytelling and virtual reality.
u mean red dead 3
I wouldn’t say it counts as a sell if you give a game for free with the console, so WiiSports doesn’t count for me.
About Red Dead, it would be RD3, but I really hope it’s Rockstars next release.
You realize that a quarter of GTA V’s sales stem from Next gen bundles? You could say the same for it.
That aside, it still won’t come anywhere close to SMB’s actual number. The GTA V number counts re-releases, whereas the SMB one does not. SMB’s original version isn’t even the best-selling one, so you’re looking at at least twice its current sales if you include re-releases.
In other words, GTA still has nothing on SMB.
God, dude, you’re so hung up on Nintendo and SMB. It’s a game for christ sakes. How long ago was SMB coined? 30 years. GTA V? Less than two years and has outsold the original SMB (fair enough, the gamer ratio of today is far higher) and is still rising at a subliminal rate. Get your head of of their ass brother. If Nintendo were anything like they used to be, they wouldn’t be telling gamers that their video content isn’t allowed to be broadcast publicly unless they review it. In other words, one bad word about their precious titles and you’d get roasted. Not like they’re in debt due to the success of the Wii, but they’re shifting the s*** with a shovel now.
Red Dead was one of the most boring and dullest game I’ve ever played. They should continue L.A. Noire, though.
Seed dead was a fantastic game .LANiure was by far the worst thing R* have ever released .