The Enduring Mystery Of How GTA V Has Sold 120 Million Copies

>gta v is the only $60 bundle-free game to sell more than 35 million copies
>gta v sold 50 million copies from 2017 - 2019
It's a money laundering scheme right? It has no explanation

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I own the ps3... ps4... and pc version.

What do you mean? People just keep buying it. People bought it for the PS3, then they bought it for the PC, then when they upgraded to the PS4 they needed another copy. It's the perfect business model, it's amazing other companies don't lean into it as brazenly.

Do you play video games user?

>a game so successful that game "journalists" think it's some sort of scheme
KEK R* is based

What helped it I think is that they made it for Xbox 360 and PS3 despite the new gen.

PS4 and Xbox One made laughably negligible steps from PS3 and Xbox 360 hardware so the difference between them is barely noticeable, there's no need to make it 60FPS because neither consoles can do 60 FPS, the entrance hardware would get only cheaper with each year ensuring that budget PCs will always play it and the port to subsequent consoles will be a piece of cake.

it's a fun game. can just play for 20 minutes and do any old shit you like

GTA 6 never ever

Gta is the only aaa franchise with decent physics and a good sandbox to play in. Not that complicated

rarely... 26 and still a virgin too... all I do is watch Ghost in The Shell on repeat....

MGSV wasn't half bad.

The most normal of normies you never hear about keep buying it. I was surprised to find out my sisters who normally don't play games got GTA V. I've played vidya since 1993 but still didn't get it. It's not real gamers buying it, it's non-gamers.

>PS4 and Xbox One made laughably negligible steps from PS3 and Xbox 360 hardware
Do you have brain damage or are you just retarded?

They released it on PS3/360, and then an upgraded version on the next gen consoles to get people to double dip. Plus PC. GTA doesn't really have any competition, the only things really similar to it is Saint's Row, and they waited 5 years after GTA IV to release it, and haven't released a new GTA game since. The multiplayer is really popular for whatever reason too.

Based?

Celtic magic

>decent physics
Physics major here (often hired by CNN and other respectable sources as an expert). That statement you just made is at least debatable.

>People just keep buying it.
Yeah, "people" like UFC fans who tune in to watch Conor McGregor fight.

They don't actually watch the sport, they only watch it one time and act like experts when doing so.

Chances are if you bought GTA V you don't have a very extensive gaming history.

basically this. white people still have trouble to realise it but niggers, both literal and in mindset, are the largest demographic by large. pic in the article sums it up. muh guns muh money muh suit, gta is unironically wish fulfillment to millions of mouthbreathers worldwide
being surprised at its success is like wondering why reality tv still sells. you are not the main demographic

It's the same thing why mobile games keep "outselling" every other medium, despite the fact most of us never seen or heard anybody play them.

Normies are a different species.

They made decent GTA game in its purest form, very little additions except for multiple protagonists which made smooth brains placebo into thinking they are buying more game for their buck, with no caveats, no nothing.

And all scummy bullshit tactics are relegated to Online mode.You get full 60 dollar package with no bullshit and also an option to get fucked in the ass if you so desire.

Newer versions of the game come with free GTA Online bux. If you can find it on sale, it works out cheaper than just buying Shark cards.

there's a shark card bundle that costs less than a shark card alone, something like that

Historically, Take-Two, the company has been charged of fraud and penalized by the SEC due to illegally parking game copies at retailers to inflate sales. However that was like around the year 2000 and the management involved was fired. Some believing the fraud was being done to inflate the company's price before selling it to EA, but the new management also shut down that deal as well. As it stands, companies is with a history get audited more harshly, but nobody here knows what management is like at Take-Two, so anything right now is mostly pointless speculation.

>the game sold 120 million copies let release the sequel 13 years later
-cockstar

It spans 3 gens and people keep re-buying it.

At least you've got good taste in anime.

I bought mine at midnight. Gta is pretty popular

Anybody who re-buys games is a low inhib consumer not a gamer. They don't know any smaller games at all, only buy overhyped trash. We have nothing in common with them despite supposedly both playing video games.

>high school kids who played the game on release will be 30 when gta 6 releases
>43 when gta 7 releases
What is cokestar thinking

Your little anecdote is completely irrelevant.

Literally about 30 milllion brain dead zoomers and zoomer shitskins who modded, got banned and bought the game again, often multiple times

oh nonoon

How is something spot on irrelevant? Nothing other than non-gamers buying the game en masse explain why it sells so much more.

I present you with answer! Iz a game with..how you english say.. "personality"

>CNN
>respectable source
Maybe in 2003

You're forgetting the free Epic version that also counts towards "sales". I have 2 versions of GTAV on PC alone

I refuse to buy it until it drops below $14.99.

>Chances are if you bought GTA V you don't have a very extensive gaming history.
Kek. This is probably true.

>>gta v sold 50 million copies from 2017 - 2019
bet most of these were paid by Timmy Tencent when he tried to lure more people into his "store"

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pure unadulterated cybertranny cope

At least you have a good taste

gta v wasn't on egs at all before the giveaway earlier this year

Don't you get a huge amount of GTAO money when you buy the game?

People literally rebuy the game for GTAO money, this is how Take-Two inflate the sales.

Please, PS4 needed a Pro version to distinguish itself from PS3. While PS5 feels like a genuine step forward playing the Last Guardian natively in 60 FPS, look it up.

No matter how you slice it, Xbox One and PS4 were hardware disasters.

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