Red Dead Redemption 2 Is Now The 4th Best-Selling Game Of All Time – WGB

Take-Two had a reasonably busy few days, announcing the delay of GTA 6 and all. However there was one other fascinating tidbit of reports to be discovered contained in the investor report.

That’s proper, everyone’s favorite cowboy simulator Red Dead Redemption 2 has sold-in a staggering 79 million copies, which brings the franchise as much as a complete of 106 million models offered.

Word: sold-in is a time period used to imply copies that have been offered to retailer, whereas sold-through refers to copies truly offered from retailer to buyer.

That 79 million copies means Purple Useless Redemption 2 is now the 4th best-selling recreation of all time. The Wikipedia web page has already been up to date, displaying that cowboys at the moment are higher than Mario in a go-kart by roughly 980k copies. Suck on that, plumber.

It’ll very seemingly seize third place quickly as properly, at present occupied by Wii Sports activities which has offered 82.9 million copies.

As soon as it grabs third place on the leaderboard, Rockstar will formally have two of three best-selling video games of all time, with GTA IV boasting 220 million offered in 2nd place.

Minecraft is the present leaderboard king, at 350 million copies and counting.

After all, when GTA 6 lastly will get its arse in gear and really launches, there’s an excellent probability it’ll catapult itself up that board at a charge which can make heads spin and inventory costs head for the Moon.

Curiously, whereas Take-Two was completely happy to boast particular numbers for RDR2, they nonetheless haven’t issued any official gross sales knowledge for Borderlands 4 which Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick described as being “softer” than expected. Then once more, they similar doc additionally didn’t embody numbers for Mafia: The Old Country which they seem very pleased with, so I assume we simply don’t get numbers lately till they enter the realms of oh my god, it offered how a lot!?