Only yesterday great news arrived about GTA 6, with the confirmation that in December we will be able to see a first official trailer, but apparently the previous chapter continues to be a great success and is approaching 200 million copies sold. This is discovered thanks to the recent quarterly results shared by Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of Rockstar Games, which in the past few hours has shared the data with an official publication.
The second quarter of 2024, which runs from the beginning of July to the end of September, was a solid period for the company, which reported revenue of $1.44 billion. While it actually represents a slight drop from the previous year, it’s still a decent result when we consider that Take-Two has released few games this year.
Leaving aside the various sports titles of the 2K series (such as NBA 2K24), GTA 5 continues to be one of Take-Two’s main driving games even years later and despite the arrival of the sequel is getting closer and closer. According to the latest earnings report, GTA 5 has surpassed 190 million units sold, and should probably be able to reach the 200 million mark sooner or later. For comparison, Red Dead Redemption 2 is far behind and has sold just over 57 million copies to date.
In the meantime, the markets have also welcomed Take-Two’s quarterly results, and as the top screen shows, there has been a sudden growth in the share value just in conjunction with the announcements and quarterly data.
We conclude by recalling that GTA 6 does not have a certain release date but it is expected that it could arrive on the markets in Take-Two’s fiscal year 2025, i.e. between April 2024 and March 2025. As a result, the company expects revenues of just under $8 billion for that fiscal year, but significantly higher than the $5.4 billion in the previous period.
It’s hard to think of any other title, other than GTA 6, to make sense of such a surge in predictions. Take-Two’s own CEO, Strauss Zelnick, took advantage of the publication of quarterly figures to say that the company will enter “growth mode” in the coming years. And what do you think, do you have high expectations for the GTA sequel? Let us know in the comments.
