- Take-Two Interactive recently reported its quarterly earnings. And one of the highlights was GTA V hitting 115 million units sold
Take-Two Interactive recently reported its quarterly earnings with a revenue increase of 74% to $859 million. Even though Take-Two’s new titles such as Borderlands 3, NBA 2K20 and WWE 2K have been making waves, GTA V has also been going strong despite being released about 6 years ago. Since May, 5 million more units of GTA V have been sold thus totaling 115 million units.
“Grand Theft Auto Online and Grand Theft Auto V once again exceeded our expectations, delivering the best quarter yet with respect to daily, weekly, and monthly active users and our best summer ever in terms of new online users and new users overall,” said said Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick during the call. “Recurrent consumer spending on Grand Theft Auto Online grew 23% to a new record, driven by the July release of the Diamond Casino & Resort update. This update was Grant Theft Auto Online’s biggest content launch ever, delivering record player engagement across daily, weekly, and monthly active users in July and then again in August.”
Borderlands 3 sold 7 million units worldwide. And NBA 2K20 hit 6 million. Plus Red Dead Redemption 2 hit 26.5 million units.
The Outer Worlds is also performing well and is exceeding expectations. That game will be released on the Nintendo Switch in early 2020.
With the better-than-expected operating results for the quarter, Zelnick increased the outlook for FY2020.
“Looking ahead, we have the strongest development pipeline in our history, we’re continuing to grow our portfolio with the highest-quality entertainment experiences including sequels for our biggest franchises, as well as exciting new IP,” added Zelnick via TechSpot.
