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GTA V Hits 80M Shipped (Digital Sales 25%), Mafia 3 5M, NBA 2K17 8M, WWE 3M, Civ6 2M

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Delusibeta

Banned
I would not be surprised if the entirety of the 500k that Mafia 3 shipped is digital sales, and that retailers are still sitting on lots of unsold copies from the initial shipment. Ultimately, I think that's a disappointment for 2k.
 
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Turkoop

Banned
T2 made so much money they can now develop Agent exclusively on PS4, Bully 2, new Midnight, Bully 3, Red Dead Spinoff, Bully 4 and a Bully 5 AND THEY HAVE STILL MONEY TO DEVELOP GAMES
 
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hanspampel

Banned
Omg the 100 milliom milestone is possible.
I'm even fairly certain it will be hit with digital backlog sales in the future.


Welcome the third best selling game of all time
 
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Lime

Member
I still can't believe that Mafia 3 managed to get such a high budget with how amazingly radical it is in its racial politics.

Happy to see it sold decently or well enough, despite the resistance against it. It is a great game with a nice narrative and some superb environmental details. Would be cool with a sequel set in the 70s featuring Roxy.
 
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PHOENIXZERO

Member
I bought the deluxe version of Mafia III for a little over $20 a couple months ago and put ~64 hours into it according to Steam, I got my money's worth. The biggest hits against it are definitely the repetitiveness required (though you don't need to do everything in a district to move the story) to advance the story hurts it badly overall, never mind the technical issues, most embarrassingly in areas that have been pretty much a staple now for over a decade such as mirror reflections are still hopelessly broken. Wish it was a better game over all though, the story was entertaining enough and Clay is a bad motherf...

I'm glad I got it cheap because there's no way in hell I'd buy the season pass or the Faster, Baby DLC for $15 with how horribly lacking it is in actual content, they open a new area on the map but you can get through the limited story content in about an hour, less if you rush and then there's absolutely no reason to ever go back.
 
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Zedark

Member
Akai__ said:
How does Mafia 3 manage to sell 4.5 Million copies in a week and end up at 5 Million shipped? You are telling me that only 500k people bought the game in the meantime?

Kinda unexpected, even if it was a pretty disappointing game for me outside of the story.



Probably not, because it needed to sell 8 Million copies to break even with production costs.
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Both Mafia 3 numbers are shipped, so it tells you they overshipped at launch somewhat.
 
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AnthonypUK

Member
Delusibeta said:
I would not be surprised if the entirety of the 500k that Mafia 3 shipped is digital sales, and that retailers are still sitting on lots of unsold copies from the initial shipment. Ultimately, I think that's a disappointment for 2k.
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Eh, i think 5 million sales more than makes the money back, so i don't think its a massive disappointment, but if they had 10 million in mind, then maybe.
 
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StoppedInTracks

Member
Is GTA5 the best selling game in history? Like did it outsell the Wii Sports or whatever was at #1 before?

Edit: not yet:

1
Tetris
Elektronorgtechnica
Spectrum HoloByte
June 6, 1984
495,000,000

2
Minecraft
Mojang
Mojang
November 18, 2011
122,000,000

3
Wii Sports
Nintendo EAD
Nintendo
November 19, 2006
82,810,000

4
Grand Theft Auto V
Rockstar North
Rockstar Games
September 17, 2013
75,000,000
 
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napata

Member
Turkoop said:
T2 made so much money they can now develop Agent exclusively on PS4, Bully 2, new Midnight, Bully 3, Red Dead Spinoff, Bully 4 and a Bully 5 AND THEY HAVE STILL MONEY TO DEVELOP GAMES
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Despite all the sales Take Two doesn't do well financially at all. They constantly operate at a loss.
 
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Ashtar

Member
Akai__ said:
How does Mafia 3 manage to sell 4.5 Million copies in a week and end up at 5 Million shipped? You are telling me that only 500k people bought the game in the meantime?

Kinda unexpected, even if it was a pretty disappointing game for me outside of the story.



Probably not, because it needed to sell 8 Million copies to break even with production costs.
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Wow really? was this stated in prior earning meetings?
 
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Alo0oy

Banned
napata said:
Despite all the sales Take Two doesn't do well financially at all. They constantly operate at a loss.
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I wish people would stop preputuating the idea that operating at a loss is automatically bad.

Amazon has been "losing" money for years, shareholders care about Capital and Assets much more than Profits, and for good reason.

If ice cream shop A makes $500 a month in profits, while Ice Cream shop B never made any profits at all but grew into a massive 50 shop chain, which do you think is better?

There's a reason revenue is considered more important than Profit in many situations.
 
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SafeinSound

Member
Didn't triple dip, but double dipped.

Those numbers are staggering. Game deserves all the success in the world. Good to see those other games doing well too.
 
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Mifec

Member
Lime said:
I still can't believe that Mafia 3 managed to get such a high budget with how amazingly radical it is in its racial politics.

Happy to see it sold decently or well enough, despite the resistance against it. It is a great game with a nice narrative and some superb environmental details. Would be cool with a sequel set in the 70s featuring Roxy.
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If only it were a great game outside of it's narrative/story/worldbuilding. The actual gameplay part is repetitive dogshit, no hyperbole here.

Really sad after the amazing intro. There is nothing in the gameplay that can redeem it.
 
Pagusas

Pagusas

Elden Member
El Topo said:
Isn't it the fastest-selling entry of the series?
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Which is even more insane if you think about it. I realize it's a slow burner sales wise, but I'd expect it to be at 5-7million at least by now.

And how can the series be at 40 million with 6 entries yet first year sales for the fastest selling in the series are only 2 million. So confused
 
Welfare

Welfare

Member
Pagusas said:
Which is even more insane if you think about it. I realize it's a slow burner sales wise, but I'd expect it to be at 5-7million at least by now.

And how can the series be at 40 million with 6 entries yet first year sales for the fastest selling in the series are only 2 million. So confused
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Civ sells for long periods of time, and Civ 6 has only been out for 7 months. Civ 5 is at 10M (on Steam) after 6 years.
 
TheMan

TheMan

Member
A fucking juggernaut. I guess I contributed two sales to the lot.

Anyone have a guesstimate breakdown of last gen vs current gen console sales? Just curious.
 
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Chessr

Member
80 million GTA V. I Guess the money spent is back 10 fold.
But they cant bother a Switch port lol. Cant cost too much. And as a bonus they get a New fanbase
 
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OléGunner

Member
Chessr said:
80 million GTA V. I Guess the money spent is back 10 fold.
But they cant bother a Switch port lol. Cant cost too much. And as a bonus they get a New fanbase
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All hands on deck for Red Dead 2.
Doubt they have the time or market appetite to bother with a Switch port.
 
Gamezone

Gamezone

Gold Member
OnionPowder said:
Yet they still gonna play dumb about RDR2 coming to PC right until it's released

Also I'm interested in how many sales are only through the Rockstar launcher. I know quite a bit of people who bought through that / 3rd party seller.
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Wasn't RDR released when many console games usually didn't hit PC? That time is over.
 
Pagusas

Pagusas

Elden Member
Welfare said:
Civ sells for long periods of time, and Civ 6 has only been out for 7 months. Civ 5 is at 10M (on Steam) after 6 years.
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That makes more sense. I imagine the bulk of Civ 5 sales came after it dropped to $30 with DLC included. I wonder how profitable the series is for take two.
 
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johnny956

Member
JaseC said:
The figure gives the wrong impression. The game shipped 4.5m in its first week but has only just recently hit 5m. Supply greatly outstripped demand.
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Yea but did they ship 0.5 million so they clearly are selling they just overshipped at first
 
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Kill3r7

Member
Hey look Take Two finally decided to turn a decent profit. All kidding aside this was a good quarter for them. GTAV and NBA2K are absolute beasts for them.
 
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Futureman

Member
LOL @ 80 million...

umm is this the best selling game ever?

edit... just saw above. Though that Tetris number I assume is for all versions across platforms? Also Wii Sports was a pack in. So I guess just behind Minecraft for best selling stand along title??
 
semiconscious

semiconscious

Member
Lime said:
I still can't believe that Mafia 3 managed to get such a high budget with how amazingly radical it is in its racial politics.

Happy to see it sold decently or well enough, despite the resistance against it. It is a great game with a nice narrative and some superb environmental details. Would be cool with a sequel set in the 70s featuring Roxy.
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glad it's been successful, as well. for a game which did so much, so well (story, characters, graphics, music, gunplay), i thought it was reviewed/criticized far too harshly...
 
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hanspampel

Banned
Futureman said:
LOL @ 80 million...

umm is this the best selling game ever?

edit... just saw above. Though that Tetris number I assume is for all versions across platforms? Also Wii Sports was a pack in. So I guess just behind Minecraft for best selling stand along title??
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yes, but GTA V and Minecraft is also on different platforms just like Tetris
Wii Sport is the best selling single platform game, tho
 
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OnionPowder

Member
Pagusas said:
Which is even more insane if you think about it. I realize it's a slow burner sales wise, but I'd expect it to be at 5-7million at least by now.

And how can the series be at 40 million with 6 entries yet first year sales for the fastest selling in the series are only 2 million. So confused
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Civ games pick up lots of sales during discounts. Civ 5 has been less than $10 and in humble bundles for ages now.

We aren't even at the first expansion, which a lot of people will wait for

Gamezone said:
Wasn't RDR released when many console games usually didn't hit PC? That time is over.
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Yeah, I was talking about RDR2. RDR1 had a bunch of stuff holding it back, but I doubt we'll ever get the full story.
 
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sw26

Member
Deserved. GTAV is a phenomenal game, while part of me is gutted they never did SP DLC you can understand why with what they've surely made via the Online microtransactions.

PS I bought 2 copies (PS3, PS4)
 
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