GTA 5 sales to top $1 billion in first month, analyst predicts

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Grand Theft Auto 5 is obviously going to sell like hotcakes; Robert W. Baird analyst Colin Sebastian has predicted it will sell like a whopping $1 billion worth of them in its first 30 days.

Sales of Rockstar’s latest will outpace GTA 4, the analyst said in a note to investors reported by Gamespot.

“Given the significantly higher installed base of relevant console platforms at launch, greater sales concentration among the top video game franchises, and unprecedented pentup demand, we expect GTA 5 to outpace GTA 4 sales, and generate roughly $1 billion in retail sales during the first month,” he said.

GTA 4 shipped 11 million units in the first month following its April 2008 launch, and has so far shipped 25 million copies. It’s worth remembering that Call of Duty regularly manages lifetime sales of over 20 million units with annual releases – can GTA blow that out of the water after five years rest?

Grand Theft Auto 5 is available now on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. PC and PS4 releases have been rumoured after an alleged source code leak.

Posted: Sep 16, 2013 8:00 pm
Related Forum: Grand Theft Auto Forum

Source: http://www.vg247.com/2013/09/16/gta-5-sales-to-top-1-billion-in-first-month-analyst-predicts/

Comments

_MarkPosted: Tue. Sep 17, 2013

I won't be surprised if this actually happened this is such a great game :)

Dr-PonyfilePosted: Tue. Sep 17, 2013

It will break records and good for Rockstar if they do Grand Theft Auto 5 is a great game and it will keep me entertained for a long time yet and its only 2 weeks until the Multiplayer comes out :D.

Dr-JPosted: Tue. Sep 17, 2013

Won't be surprised, but no sales from me

-InsanelyAwesome-Posted: Tue. Sep 17, 2013

Hardly a surprise to be honest. We all knew it was going to be massive and break records.

fexPosted: Tue. Sep 17, 2013

:O Rockstar are going to be absolutely loaded! I bet everyone that works there is over the moon

DissPosted: Tue. Sep 17, 2013

Lyon
Gossip I dont think it will do $1 billion. A couple hundred million but a billion, really?

yea they spent 256 million and they got 1 billion in return its only the first month !

That's one big profit, especially since it's going to be just in the first month.

DissPosted: Tue. Sep 17, 2013

Now that's a lot of money 0.0

I kind of saw it coming though, with how successful GTA IV was.

CHPPosted: Mon. Sep 16, 2013

wouldnt doubt it. bo2 got 1 billion in two weeks . or maybe one month

MultitaskPosted: Mon. Sep 16, 2013

Gossip I dont think it will do $1 billion. A couple hundred million but a billion, really?

yea they spent 256 million and they got 1 billion in return its only the first month !

MultitaskPosted: Mon. Sep 16, 2013

Alberici Prob same with cod ghost >:|

no this year gta is on top.
1 billion damn!

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