GTA 5 Ships 140 Million Copies, 2020 Its Best-Selling Year Since Launch

I've actually never bought it. Got it free on Epic Games Store but never played it.

The new GTA online (well an enhanced version) is supposed to be free at launch on PS5 this year 🤔

And that's why they don't ''need'' to release new games anymore...

I once read that a major reason for GTA V’s constant success was that it was usually cheaper to find new copies of the game on sale to source the Shark Card funds bundled inside and sell the game rather than buy the shark card directly. Although yet to fully corroborate that.

Would suggest that many CEX across the UK would be using GTAV cases to construct the walls with an overflow of copies.

I hope we'll still get gta 6

Never bought it. With the focus now on the online, I likely never will. Soured on the franchise because of it.

I bought it again recently. I have to admit there isn’t anything out there that comes close to the madness that’s is GTA online. It’s not even a game I particularly enjoy but playing online with friends is a proper laugh.

Purchased in early 2020.

Wow. That’s a huge number and the cash pouring in tells me that GTA6, is likely to be years off.

I am one of the few who hasn’t bought GTA5. In fact other than playing GTA on my mates PlayStation back at the dawn of time, I’ve not really spent much time on any of them.

And that’s despite owning the PSP versions and GTAIV on PS3 ... I believe they’re remarkable games; they’re all just stuck in backlog hell. I have no interest in the Online version either.

I don't own it, and played it for about 5 minutes to find out it is still the same game (as any other gta), so there is no need buying it.

Still the lack of DLC is annoying. A lot of people would be just happy to pay for it just to keep having fun without the need to play online and with 140M copies sold this would be a huge amount of money so doesn’t make sense even from a cynical point of view. 🤷🏻

@JapaneseSonic Yes like you, I feel uncool right now judging from the cool "never bought it" comments above because I feel GTAV is a masterpiece that encompasses several games put into one. I also prefer SP but there's no denying GTAO is mad fun.

I'm not even thinking about GTAVI now why? RDRII exists, it's here, NOW enjoy the NOW!

Most games are happy to break 1M, this is so ridiculous it's hard to even grasp the scale

I purchased it on PS3 and then PS4 and enjoyed both play throughs.

Wasn't the PS5 getting an upscaled version of this game?

And they still haven't put it onto a Nintendo system lol

While mighty impressive, I can't say it's all that surprising. Most people simply buy what everyone else is buying. Hence certain games becoming evergreen regardless of quality.

Gta 5 the g.o.a.t.word up son

I was trying to grasp the scale of it all, and being from Sweden I realized that the number of sales would be as if EVERY SINGLE person here in Sweden bought GTA V...

14 times each.

San andreas remake please!! I'm actually at the stage where I don't know what a gta6 should look like. How do you parody the world today, real life is too nuts! Is an open world driving game with basic cover shooting and movie moment cameos/parodies even viable? My favourite game series of all time but I actually don't know what they should do with modern gta

@RudeAnimat0r that’s ok I got ya back, I bought two copies!

@R1spam no no no, vice city every time!

I used GTA 5 to practice Parallel parking and merging onto a highway the night before my final driving test, definitely helped me pass. I told this to my friend who took me to the drive test Centre while waiting in line for my temporary license, the woman in front of us overheard me turned around and gave me a death stare, she had failed. Good fun.

@Dodoo Ha, I bet you and several others!

I became bored of this game years ago. The very long load times, the very long wait times trying to get a full room and the overall clunkyness of the game almost made me hate it.

I truly believe it spent more time waiting for things in this game than actually playing it.

I've heard that GTA RP is becoming a big thing again on Twitch. I always figured the RP portion of the Online is what's helping drive the sales for so long.

Omg stop encouraging them, doesn't everyone already have 3 copies, stop buying it lol.
Give us bully 2 or something new ya lazy ****s
Btw ive Loved every single gta game and think V is a masterpiece but COME ON. the fact they are making so much money TO ME just means they SHOULD make more new games, games with unlimited funding. AMAZING games!
But no... Let's just sit around counting our money instead. At this point it's safe to say they really aren't a game developer

I wonder if the free copies shipped on the epic store are factored into the sales figures for the year.... Whilst the game was free for consumers, Epic would’ve been paying Rockstar some kind of fee per copy redeemed, technically making each download a sale.

@thefourfoldroot the single player story is worth the price of the game alone. You don't need to play online to enjoy GTA 5 ya know. Fair enough if you don't like the sound of the story but the single player game on its own is a 10/10

@TheArt "I'm not even thinking about GTAVI now why? RDRII exists, it's here, NOW enjoy the NOW!"

Those two franchises are not even related and RDRII is considered old now, is like me saying I don't need Rachet and clank cause I have Miles Morales right now 😅

I bought it when it came out and played the heck out of it. Burned myself out on it even before all this online stuff. And that was YEARS ago. Not like they care, but Rockstar isn't getting money out of me again until they make a new game.

@Juanalf Well that's you. I hold all Rockstar games in the highest regard. I'm getting the SAME enjoyment as I did with all of them. 😉

@Octane i guess the PS2 era was the best Vice City for the music alone. GTA 4 i really didnt like it setting, characters. GTA 3 was fun i never played San Andreas. Manhunt and Max Payne thats what i really like too see make a return.

@R1spam You said it yourself a real life game would be insane.

@TheArt Are you on the board of R* or something. 🤪

I dont like GTA i do like GTA 3 and Vice City though. And. I loved the first Manhunt and Max Payne and even Midnight Club franchise and maybe Bully after im going too the remake.

@solocapers
Maybe, but the direction they have taken as a company means I don’t want to support them.

Money clearly isn’t an issue so I don’t see why they don’t give the people what they want. They know a gta remaster would sell like hot cakes because if you attach the Rockstar logo to any game then it’s guaranteed to be a sales success. I wish they would branch out and create new games (maybe that’s what they’re doing and that’s why they’re silent). Would like to see them get out of their comfort zone and try something that isn’t a GTA style game. Last game we got from them was Max Payne 3 and I’d kill to have a sequel or something like that next

@Flaming_Kaiser For the 1000th time you've told me that. And yes I'm on the R* board man 😉

@Octane
This picture sums it up for me. Outrageous that this is a PS3 game and its still selling. So lazy and greedy imo. Easy cash for them I suppose. Please just bring out VI.

I'm done with remasters also. Maybe I'm just grumpy lol

Who is still buying brand new copies!?

@Discol76 I dunno, people are still buying it, so who's to blame? If there was no GTA Online with MTX to keep this afloat, we would've had a new one by now, maybe a couple even.

@Octane
Yip I agree. The people constantly buying it doesn't help. Although for some of them it might be the first time they've came across the game. I'm sick of the sight of it and just want the new one now lol.

I'd go crazy for a Vice City remake.

I don't think the money it's still making is the only reason we've not seen GTA VI. Games take a long time to make these days. It took them 5 years after GTA V to make Red Dead II, so I'm expecting at least another 5 years after that for GTA VI which would be 2023 at the earliest.

@Octane So RDR2 just doesn't exist?

@stefan771 That's GTA only mate. If you want to include all Rockstar releases, it looks even worse: https://preview.redd.it/d114qxtarp401.jpg?auto=webp&s=6a934a2dd99c36dfcc310d3c18bd17df7e213f64