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[Hip Hop]

2.5 million sales yet can't even peak above 1000 players on Steam.

Well yeah, I would assume it's a much more popular game on consoles.

Call of Duty sells millions, Advanced Warfare barely does 3,500 players daily on Steam.

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

52 million, good lord.

And that ain't exactly been Humble Bundled, either.

 

[Old Gimlet Eyes]

..
Maybe grossing it may have a shot but it will never beat Tetris its on a different level lol when it comes to single game sales I guess

Excluding F2P titles, I think its behind Minecraft and Wii Sports and maybe Super Mario Bros. if you combine the remakes & Virtual Console over the years. It's probably up there in highest grossing if you include the microtransactions

Edit: And Tetris perhaps but Tetris going through so many pub's hands muddies it

Are Tetris sales across all platforms it had been released on over the years aka everything?? Gta5 possibly highest selling console/PC release?? I will admit to triple dipping for gta5 only game I have ever done that for.

 

[jacobeid]

Holy shit.

 

[Certinty]

Not surprising, best game ever made and God knows how many people double and even triple dipped on it.

 

[ashecitism]

2.5 million sales yet can't even peak above 1000 players on Steam.

It sold around 350k on Steam.

 

[Opiate]

These are incredible numbers for GTAV.

Combined with stagnant software sales gen over gen, this is further evidence that the winners are winning in increasingly big at the expense of everyone else.

 

[Nirolak]

You're going to have to try a little bit harder if you want to catch Minecraft Take-Two.

I guess your ho-hum results are "okay" though.

 

[Blade30]

52 million? That's huge, which CoD game sold the most?

 

[m_shortpants]

Not gonna lie, I

Spoiler

triple

dipped on GTA.

 

[InsaneTiger]

2.5 mil for Evolve ain't bad for a new IP, is it?

Shame, it should have sold less.

 

[oti]

It's sold in. Not sold out. Still impressive of course.

 

[OléGunner]

Just how much must the Houser bros be worth?!

Laughing all the way to the god damn bank.

 

[gdt]

I don't even know how to respond to that number

 

[SolidSnakex]

52 million? That's huge, which CoD game sold the most?

I think MW3 is the best selling CoD. It did around 27m.

 

[Dinjooh]

Take Two:

 

[1st Course]

And somehow they still posted loss.

 

[Finale Fireworker]

Man. How can a game that sells 52 million copies have such a small impact on the cultural gaming sphere? Do I live in a bubble?
Why don't I know anybody who cares about GTA V? Why are there no memes? No mainstream awareness of plot or characters? No iconic locations? It's just a brand to me. I don't know anybody attached to it. Or passionate about it.

Apparently I literally live underground.

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

You're going to have to try a little bit harder if you want to catch Minecraft Take-Two.

I guess your ho-hum results are "okay" though.

whats MC at?

 

[cw_sasuke]

What makes the number more impressive is that it is still selling quite well and wont leave the charts anytime soon - its already a evergreen on PS4/One/PC and will continue to sell for the rest of the Gen.

 

[JohnnyMoses]

I bought 3 of those GTA V copies. 1 on PS3, 1 on Xbox One, then another on PS4. Still haven't finished it.

 

[Blade30]

I think MW3 is the best selling CoD. It did around 27m.

That's almost half of what GTAV did , huh... But it's to be expected I guess since CoD gets a new game each year.

 

[Welfare]

whats MC at?

Over 60 million.

 

[Hip Hop]

You're going to have to try a little bit harder if you want to catch Minecraft Take-Two.

I guess your ho-hum results are "okay" though.

Is it fair that Minecraft is less than half the price of the GTA V MSRP?

 

[entremet]

Almost double GTA IV.

...how is that even possible

Like I legit don't even believe those numbers.

Bigger console install base. Also 5 SKUs instead of 3 like GTA IV

 

[fargofallout]

I'm sorry, did you say 52 million?

 

[theprodigy]

And somehow they still posted loss.

wait, what? lol wow

 

[SolidSnakex]

That's almost half of what GTAV did , huh.

Anticipation is a big thing that GTA has going for it that CoD doesn't. There was a five year gap between GTA4 and GTA5, without anything being released that could really take its place. CoD has a new game every year, so there's no real build up for the next game.

 

[Cub3h]

And somehow they still posted loss.

That's the most bizarre thing to me, Take Two have arguably the highest grossing game ever (minecraft is a lot cheaper, wii sports & tetris were pack-ins) and still manage to lose money?

I can't think of what sort of money sucking vortex they must have, there must be layers upon layers of management siphoning away cash at all levels.

 

[Nirolak]

Is it fair that Minecraft is less than half the price of the GTA V MSRP?

I'm being sarcastic.

 

[Rymuth]

Fifff...fffty...two?

*faints*

 

[ZhugeEX]

NBA 2k15 just under 7m
WWE 2k15 sold in nearly 3m, 40% up from 2K14 in the same time.
Borderlands sales exceeded expectations, 20% digital. 25m units franchise sales of which 8m sold in FY2015.

Nirolak, you wanna copy bump haha!

 

[dex3108]

New AAA game before March 2016.

Please be:

• Mafia 3
• RDR 2
• Agent

 

[Nirolak]

And somehow they still posted loss.

That's our good ol' Take-Two.

 

[Chris1]

Take a bow Rockstar

 

[SarcasticD]

I contributed to 3 GTAV sales

 

[Nirolak]

NBA 2k15 just under 7m
WWE 2k15 sold in nearly 3m, 40% up from 2K14 in the same time.
Borderlands sales exceeded expectations, 20% digital. 25m units franchise sales of which 8m sold in FY2015.

Nirolak, you wanna copy bump haha!

I managed to fit two of those in the title, but I think I'll split off the overperforming.

 

[todahawk]

And somehow they still posted loss.

Yeah, that's a bigger holy shit than the 52 million GTA 5 sold. How?

 

[Crawl]

What is really causing take two to lose so much money?

 

[astrogamer]

It's crossed SMB by a dozen million, don't think the VC sales would make up the deficiency.

In pure terms, yes
SMB on NES sold 40.28 million
The GBA version sold 2.26 million
42.52 million

but including All Stars and Deluxe
Super Mario All-Star (SNES) - 10.55 million
Super Mario All-Stars Wii - 2.24 million
SMB Deluxe - 5.07 million
17.86 million +42.52 = 60.38 million

you start to see that it's kind of murky. Like how do you decide to count those collections

 

[Turkoop]

GTAV deserves EVERY OSCAR
God I fucking love this game

 

[ZhugeEX]

Via take two.

Forecast over 50m as of end of 2015.

Forecast 110m as of end of 2019.

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

How do you sell 52 million copies of a game and still take a loss? Who the hell is skimming off the top over there?

 

[KorrZ]

What is really causing take two to lose so much money?

That's my question as well...a lot of their games seem to sell very well. GTA is a monster, NBA does well every year, they have the Civ series which sells well, Borderlands sold huge

How do they lose so much money?

 

[Gurish]

This number is just unbelievable, I can't really fathom it, how is this possible and how did they manage to still lose after such a hit? So many sales should cover them for like 6 years of flops.

 

[FStop7]

$243 million loss? Sounds totally sustainable.

 

[Newtype-001]

Man I cant even.

 

[Nirolak]

That's my question as well...a lot of their games seem to sell very well. GTA is a monster, NBA does well every year...they have the Civ series which sells well, Borderlands sold huge

How do they lose so much money?

Some of it is phasing due to how multiplayer makes them doll out income over a long time period versus the costs they all incur now.

However most of it is mismanagement given they're only making $50 million even by their own accounting which is comically bad for how much they've been shipping.

 

[ZhugeEX]

GTA Online will have new free content.

75% digital sales on PC (If I heard correctly, don't quote me, need to double check)

 

[OriginalThinking]

Take Two lost $243 million despite a massive increase in revenue due to GTA V sales?

Why do I suspect that there is some accounting magic going on here to protect them from paying a rather large tax bill?

Spoiler

Or in my cynicism am I genuinely missing something which explains this?