Another Take-Two Interactive quarterly financial report has made it out into the wild and as usual, Grand Theft Auto is stealing most of the headlines. The biggest takeaway is that in the past three months, GTA 5 has sold an additional five million copies. That brings its running total up to more than 160 million, which is more than every Assassin's Creed game combined and comfortably makes it the second best-selling game ever behind Minecraft.
GTA 5 isn't the only Rockstar game that continues to build massive success. Red Dead Redemption 2 might not be pulling huge numbers when compared to the title it shares a studio with, but it is when you compare it to almost everything else. So much so that the sequel has now broken into the top ten best-selling games of all time, surpassing 43 million copies sold worldwide.
RDR2 has been sitting behind the Nintendo version of Tetris for a while which now moves down into 11th place, or joint-tenth for the time being until the next RDR2 numbers are reported. It also seems incredibly likely the Rockstar title continues to ascend up those rankings throughout the rest of 2022. It is now less than a million copies away from ninth-placed Wii Fit, but will need to sell another five million units if it wants to climb up to eighth and knock back Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow.
GTA 5 could register that sort of sales figure in a single quarter, and actually has done for the past four of them. Five million copies per quarter for the past year, a number that will almost definitely be topped during this current three-month period since it will include the launch of its enhanced edition on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
It's good news across the board for Take-Two when it comes to GTA and RDR2. Even GTA: The Trilogy, which was lambasted when it launched last year due to its various bugs and issues, outperformed what the studio was expecting. Exact numbers were not shared, but it's estimated The Trilogy shipped somewhere in the region of ten million copies in its first three months.