Grand Theft Auto franchise reaches 125 million sales

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Since the launch of the very first Grand Theft Auto, the franchise has shipped over 125 million units to retailers.
With Grand Theft Auto: IV accounting for 25 million units alone.

Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick announced the achievement at this year's Credit Suisse Technology Conference.

Zelnick claims that part of the franchise's success is down to their irregular releases. Zelnick used the Call of Duty series and their annual release as a comparison, remarking that Black Ops 2 is performing poorer commercially than Modern Warfare 3 had done.

"That's never been the case with one of ours," said Zelnick. "Ours do better each time.”
”IP that is annualized eventually seems to hit the wall and we don't want our IP to hit the wall."

Posted: Nov 29, 2012 10:41 am
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Comments

OasisPosted: Thu. Nov 29, 2012

Never a truer word spoken about cod.

PoonPosted: Thu. Nov 29, 2012

i thought there was more than that xD..

JizuePosted: Thu. Nov 29, 2012

GTA has always been my favorite game

NatusVincerePosted: Thu. Nov 29, 2012

GTA V will out sell black ops 2 n halo4 combined.

sw4gPosted: Thu. Nov 29, 2012

Amazing.

Right up there behind (surpassed COD) the all time best selling games: Tetris, Sims, Pokemon, Super Mario. For the genre it is, it's extremely impressive. Can't wait to see how much GTA:V increases lifetime sales for the developer, but it's pretty unfortunate their next release won't have a PC port and is limited to consoles.

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