{"id":92847,"date":"2026-11-10T09:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92847"},"modified":"2026-11-10T10:40:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T15:40:43","slug":"gta-5-simply-refuses-to-stop-selling-even-with-gta-6-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92847","title":{"rendered":"GTA 5 Simply Refuses To Stop Selling, Even With GTA 6 On The Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6-guides-hub-how-to-do-everything-in-grand-theft-auto-6\/\">Grand Theft Auto 6<\/a> gets ready to launch, GTA 5 is still selling impressively. The GTA series has sold more than 480 million copies, with GTA 5 making up 235 million of those. Take-Two Interactive, the publisher, recently shared that another 5 million copies of GTA 5 were sold in the past 90 days during its second-quarter fiscal year 2027 update.<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1954409\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Rockstar-games.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1954409\" \/>Business is boomin&#8217; for Rockstar Games <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are several reasons why GTA 5 keeps selling so well. One big factor is its frequent discounts on digital stores, and bundles with Shark Cards often cost less than buying in-game currency by itself. The game has also launched on three generations of consoles, and GTA Online has attracted a huge audience. Excitement for GTA 6 is probably helping sales too, putting GTA 5 just behind Tetris and Minecraft as one of the best-selling games ever.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oxqys4Nm4Cs  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rockstar\u2019s other major open-world game, Red Dead Redemption 2, has also reached an impressive milestone. It has sold 89 million copies, putting it just behind GTA 5 and ahead of other big titles like Wii Sports (82.9 million), Mario<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Grand Theft Auto 6 gets ready to launch, GTA 5 is still selling impressively. The GTA series has sold more than 480 million copies, with GTA 5 making up 235 million of those. Take-Two Interactive, the publisher, recently shared that another 5 million copies of GTA 5 were sold in the past 90 days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":92849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92850,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92847\/revisions\/92850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}