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Amid confirmation that GTA 6 really has been delayed again, we have word that Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 has become the fourth best-selling game of all time.
As detailed in publisher Take-Two’s investor call yesterday (November 6), the sequel has sold over 79 million units — making it the “best-selling title of the last seven years in the U.S. based on dollar sales” — and taking sales of the entire series to 106 million.
To give that some context, think of all the hugely successful games that have been released in the last seven years — Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Hogwarts Legacy, Elden Ring, to name but a few — as well as everything that’s released over the last few decades. Apart from Minecraft, GTA 5, and Wii Sports, which have sold 350 million, 220 million, and 82.9 million copies, respectively, Red Dead Redemption 2 has outsold everything.
With 79 million sales, that puts Red Dead 2 just ahead of the prior fourth-place Mario Kart 8’s estimated 78.02 million sales, as well as PUBG (75 million), The Oregon Trail (65 million), Terraria (64 million), The Witcher 3 (60 million), and the original 1985 Super Mario Bros. (58
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