The Grand Theft Auto series has gone through a five-year wait for the newest chapter, Grand Theft Auto V, which came out this Tuesday. However, it doesn’t look like the desire to play a new chapter in the series has waned one bit.
Take-Two Interactive Software, the publishing company that works alongside Rockstar Games, has announced that the game has sold more than $800 million worth of units in its first 24-hour period – and that’s not even including such markets as Brazil and Japan.
That translates to approximately 13 million units, which marks the highest first-day retail sales in Rockstar’s history, as well as the GTA series in itself. Grand Theft Auto IV, the previous release, sold approximately $300 million in its first day of release.
This could lead to a huge sales spike over the holiday season, and could also mean good news for other blockbusters-to-be, including Call of Duty: Ghosts and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.
Source: NBC News
