But who’s going to be able to stop the GTA V compressor roller? As the game nears 10 years of existence, sales continue to grow, making this episode the record-breaking episode for Rockstar Games. Last night, Take Two Interactive released financial results for the first quarter of its new fiscal year, which ended on June 30, 2021 and against all odds, targets have exceeded expectations. It is obviously thanks to GTA V that the parent company recorded a net profit of more than 128 million euros in the space of just three months. This is almost as much as the full 2017/2018 financial year which reached 147 million euros. With more than 150 million GTA 5 sold worldwide, a new level has just been crossed, which in total cumulative allows the series to achieve 350 million sales since its existence. Take Two took the opportunity to give details about the next gen ‘version, whose development is going well, we are told.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is also a game that weighs quite a bit with 38 million copies sold since its release in October 2018. For a game whose gameplay is more realistic and the inertia of the character heavier, it’s a sacred feat, especially since Rockstar Games is giving itself the means to make Red Dead Online a multiplayer worthy of the name. We can also observe an increase of 18% of connected players between the months of April and June 2021. Take Two also specified that additional content and in-game purchases have further increased by 15%, which is equivalent to approximately 70% of quarterly turnover. Like what, the game-service, when it is well exploited and proposed, seems to bear fruit, even in traditional video games.
