GTA’s remaster trilogy has ‘significantly exceeded expectations’ with up to 10m sales
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition may have sold as many as 10 million copies since its release last November.
In an investor presentation released on Monday, Rockstar owner Take-Two published updated lifetime shipment figures for Grand Theft Auto V and the wider franchise.
The series has sold-in over 370 million units, including over 160 million copies of GTA V.
The figures are up from 355 million and 155 million respectively, which Take-Two reported last November, just prior to the release of the GTA trilogy remaster collection.
While sales of older GTA games can’t be discounted, it’s likely that GTA: The Trilogy – Definitive Edition accounted for the vast majority of the 10 million non-GTA V series sales during Take Two’s most recent quarter.
Take-Two hasn’t provided actual sales figures for GTA: The Trilogy – Definitive Edition, but CEO Strauss Zelnick claimed last month that it had performed “great” since its release.
And during the company’s third-quarter earnings call on Monday, Zelnick said the title had “significantly exceeded” the company’s commercial expectations.
The highly anticipated title was released with a significant number of technical issues, as well as “unintended” documents within its game files such as unlicensed music and developer notes, resulting in the PC version being pulled temporarily.
Commenting on the state of the remasters, Take-Two’s Zelnick told GI.biz on Monday that further improvements were coming.
“We have some quality issues. We’ve attempted to address those. We have more coming, and we feel very good about how the title has performed commercially. I think we were all a bit disappointed about the quality initially. We’re very grateful that most of those issues have been
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