Grand Theft Auto V has been shipped 150 million times

Publisher Take-Two says GTA V shipments have passed 150 million. This brings the number of copies delivered this year to 10 million. The GTA franchise now accounts for 350 million games shipped.

In May, GTA V shipped 145 million copies, and early this year, Take-Two said Rockstar’s game had reached the 140 million shipped milestone by 2020. At the presentation of the quarterly figures Take-Two now announces that this number is more than 150 million.

Last year, 20 million copies of the game were shipped. This year, the game is on track to reach or surpass that number again. To date, 10 million copies have already been shipped and the game will be released again for the new consoles on November 11. Along with that improved version of GTA V for the Xbox Series X and S and PlayStation 5, a standalone version of GTA Online will also be available.

It is not yet clear what improvements the ‘next-gen’ version of GTA V will receive exactly. Rockstar has already announced that some cars in GTA Online will get a higher top speed on the new consoles. This is possible because the game world can be loaded faster.

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Take-Two also provides updates on other franchises. For example, 38 million copies of Red Dead Redemption 2 have now been delivered and the Borderlands franchise has reached 71 million copies. These are small increases compared to the numbers that the publisher presented in May.

Civilization VI has shipped more than 11 million copies to date. That game is doing better than its predecessor in the same time frame, says Take-Two. The franchise is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. The first Civilization game was released in September 1991.

In the past quarter Take-Two achieved a turnover of $839.4 million. That is 10 percent more than in the same quarter a year earlier. Revenue from “recurring expenses,” such as DLC and microtransactions, accounted for 67 percent of sales. Among the games that contribute most to revenue, the publisher lists NBA 2K21, NBA 2K20, GTA Online, GTA V, Red Dead Redemption 2 as the first. Turnover figures per game are not disclosed by Take-Two.