Sunday, September 22, 2013
If we all remember GTA V has been released last September 17, 2013 and after the release it earned $800 million in just one day!
Three days after hitting the market, Take Two Interactive reported that GTA V remarkably grossed $1 billion, making a history in world of entertainment. Even it surpasses the current record of Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 that earned $500 million in day one sale and its $1 billion mark hits in 15 day on sale last year.
Furthermore, Take Two Interactive also reported that GTA V beat the record of box-office hit films. The Avangers, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows and Avatar that grossed $1 billion but it took 19 days to earned it.
Here's Strauss Zelnick the chairman and CEO of Take Two Interactive statement:
"Grand Theft Auto is a cultural phenomenon and Rockstar Games continues to redefine what can be achieved in interactive entertainment, we are incredibly proud of the extraordinary critical and commercial response to Grand Theft Auto 5."The fact that the game has a high controversy of violence and crime, it achieved enormous success of achievements because the game offers tremendous numbers of ways to have fun.
Even more Rockstar will push out Grand Theft Auto Online, the multiplayer mod of the game that launches this October, which may be able to help the game sales even reach a greater heights.
Source: Take Two Interactive
