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NBA 2K19 dunks past 9 million copies
2K Games's latest basketball sim sold well for the publisher, and player spending on microtransactions is up overall across Take-Two's games.
venturebeat.com
The NBA 2K franchise continues to set new records for Take-Two Interactive. The publisher announced that the latest version of 2K Games’s basketball sim, last year’s NBA 2K19, is now at over 9 million copies sold.
Despite its success — along with ongoing sales of Red Dead Redemption 2, and player spending in Red Dead Online and Grand Theft Auto Online — Take-Two missed analysts’ expectations for its fourth-fiscal quarter earnings (ending March 31, 2019). But 9 million isn’t too shabby, as it means that NBA 2K19 is responsible for roughly 10% of the franchise’s total sales of 90 million. And that’s less than a year after its September 2018 launch.
With EA once again discussing shelving NBA Live, and Madden not even reaching 5 million (as of last report) EA's sports empire is dying along with their other declines.
Meanwhile Take2 is killing it with massive sales like 110 million for GTA V and over 24 million for RDR2.
Now we have over 9 million for NBA2k, which is better than the last two games and is a big deal in sports games that's not named Fifa (also in decline at EA)