GTA V has topped the UK gross sales chart… for the fifteenth time

Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V – which first got here out in 2013 and has had virtually as many re-releases as Skyrim – has changed FIFA 18 on the high of the UK bodily all codecs gross sales chart. This would be the fifteenth time it has sat in high spot since its launch.

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This might solely occur in a quiet week, and certainly the one new entries in the top ten are TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge and Bravo Team, which debut at #2 and #three respectively.

Nonetheless, it is a testomony to GTA’s unusually lengthy ‘tail’ that it may nonetheless pull one thing like this off, virtually 5 years after its preliminary launch. Here’s one other story of its enduring enchantment: guess when its recorded its peak concurrent customers on Steam. Probably through the week after its PC launch in April 2015, proper? Wrong: July last year. 15 million of its staggering 90 million sales got here in 2017.

The figures come from GfK Chart-Track, who monitor all gross sales captured by point-of-sale expertise (which is to say, retail gross sales, and some on-line ones).


 
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