GTA publisher reports progress and stops game development

Last Tuesday, Take-Two Interactive released a financial report for the second quarter of the fiscal year (July-September 2021), in which it boasted of the success of GTA, Red Dead Redemption, canceled one expensive game and shared plans for the future.

Let’s start with a burning topic – the number of copies of GTA 5 sold has exceeded 155,000,000 copies. Plus 5,000,000 Quarterly… As our readers say, we must continue to buy the game. (sarcasm)… The total number of Grand Theft Auto parts sold has crossed the 355,000,000 threshold. An impressive volume for one of the most successful, iconic and critically acclaimed series in the entire entertainment industry! It’s a shame they don’t provide detailed statistics on the sales of each GTA part – we’d be curious to know those details.

Another “cash cow” series of Red Dead Redemption has sold over the world in the amount of 62,000,000 units. Of that number, 39,000,000 copies sold were Red Dead Redemption 2, or plus 1,000,000 in the quarter. An impressive result for a GTA Wild West niche game.

The announcement of Take-Two Interactive to cancel the development of an undeclared game with a budget of $ 53,000,000 made a lot of noise on the web. The players began to bury Bully 2, Midnight Club 5, Bioshock and Agent (by the way, it was removed from the official Rockstar Games website).

but according to Bloomberg agency This is a game codenamed Volt (an online project about superheroes was supposed to give life to a new game series), which was developed by the authors of the final reissue of Mafia. The game began to be developed in 2017, but along the way it stalled, restarted several times, and has now been canceled.

The publisher has already decided on plans for the future. In 6 days is waiting for us Final reissue of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – Definitive Edition, and in March 2022 will arrive reissue of GTA 5: Expanded and Enhancedas well as a separate version GTA Online…

For a more detailed study of the financial report, you can use capacious infographics [5,06 Mb, PDF] or detailed document [157 Kb, PDF] from Take-Two Interactive.