The highly anticipated blockbuster video game “Grand Theft Auto VI” has reached $1 billion in sales ahead of its Nov. 19 release, according to Forbes.
The game has sold 10.31 million units across both systems on which it will be released: PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
By comparison, its 2013 predecessor, “Grand Theft Auto V,” sold 7 million units in preorders and 16 million in its first week of release.
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Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of Take-Two, the company that owns “GTA” developer Rockstar Games, said that preorders were “tracking far above our initial expectations.”
Since its launch, “GTA V” has sold an estimated 235 million units, according to Take-Two. The entire “GTA” franchise has sold around 480 million units. The first game in the series was released in 1997.
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