GTA V brings publishers nearly $ 6 billion in revenue | Games

The publisher of Grand Theft Auto V – Take-Two Interactive earned nearly $ 6 billion on the game with a development budget of about $ 256 million, said Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad.

The company received about $ 200 million from pre-orders, and after the start of sales in the fourth quarter of 2013, Take-Two earned almost $ 1.5 billion. For seven years in each quarter, GTA V brought the publisher from $ 43 million to $ 227 million. The first quarter of 2020 became the third largest revenue in the history of the game, adding $ 210 million to Take-Two Interactive accounts. Statistics take into account both sales of GTA V copies and microtransactions in GTA Online.

The release of Grand Theft Auto V took place on September 17, 2013 on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, a year later the version for the next generation consoles was released, and on April 14, 2015 the game was released on PC. The average GTA V score on Metacritic from the press was 96-97 out of 100 points, depending on the platform, and users rated it 7.6-8.3 out of 10 points.

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