‘GTA 5’ Sales: Rockstar Boasts Bestselling Game Of 2013
GTA 5 sales in 2013 made it the bestselling title of the year, beating out even Pokemon X and Y and Call of Duty: Ghosts. The open world sandbox title has garnered attention from more people than any other game that year, and even politicians are likely to take notice the next time the infamous debate comes up.
Take Two Entertainment, the parent company of Rockstar, revealed in their latest financial report that Grand Theft Auto 5 has sold 32.5 million copies to date, more than making up for the apparent cost of developing the game and supplying enough servers. Even server issues and vanishing purchases due to glitches weren’t enough to slow sales of probably the most anticipated video game of the last generation.
Sales of Grand Theft Auto 5 even earned the game seven Guinness World Records, as previously reported by The Inquisitr.
GTA 5 sales may not have contributed, but it was also named Inquisitr‘s Xbox 360 Game of the Year. Rockstar put a lot of work into their killer IP and it shows, from the random details throughout the game, to the licensed music and celebrity lampoons thrown in, and even the much more usable weapon and targeting system the game uses.
The game was so popular, in fact, that GTA 5 cheats had become an overwhelming problem for Rockstar. Hackers were creating counterfeit money and distributing it among online gamers to the point where Rockstar had to release several patches to make the money-based GTA 5 cheats unusable. A game developer can’t make any money on microtransactions when the money being used is fake.
In spite of all this, GTA 5 sales are proving Rockstar‘s biggest game to be worth all of the trouble involved in getting it running and making it fair for gamers who stayed legitimate. It wasn’t just sales that drove up the numbers for Grand Theft Auto 5, either. Search terms for the game were some of the most used in 2013, proving that when gamers weren’t playing it, they were looking things up about it. Not even Ubisoft can say that about Assassin’s Creed 4, one of the best games in the series.
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So what’s being planned for the future of Grand Theft Auto 5? While next gen console ports are still possible, the more solid rumors are pointing to a GTA 5 PC download release date in the next few months, if a certain Norwegian retailer’s preorder listing can be trusted. While a Mac version may be possible, Apple’s gamer community probably won’t see it for a few years, if ever.
While it may not be any surprise to gamers in general, the record GTA 5 sales in 2013 are still impressive. Can it repeat this feat in 2014 as well?
