Red Dead Redemption 2 Not Expected To Sell As Much As GTA 5
GamesIndustry.biz recently held an interview with Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, who stated that the company is not going to measure the game’s success in context of how well it does when compared with GTA V’s sales. “The reason, in my opinion, why GTA V has sold 80m units, and GTA Online had another record year 3-and-a-half years since its release, is because it stands alone in the generation,” Zelnick explained.
“In every prior generation, there have been other titles that have clustered around GTA from a quality point-of-view,” he said. “That’s clearly not the case now. If you are over 17 and you have a new generation console, you have GTA. Otherwise we wouldn’t have shipped 80m units. Can any other title achieve that? It seems unlikely. Do we have incredibly high hopes for Red Dead? We do. But we are not putting it in the context of GTA.”
That seems perfectly reasonable to me. And why wouldn’t it? Grand Theft Auto V is an absolute success- it’s sold 80 million units, and that is by no means ordinary. To expect any game would be able to match those figures, even one as massive as Red Dead Redemption 2, is unrealistic and unreasonable.
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uwuPosted:
Of course it won't sell more than GTA V. GTA V had (and still has) a very large amount of activity day in and day out; RDR's multiplayer won't possibly come close to that.
SupervisorPosted:
Well I doubt it would outsell GTA V however regardless Im going to play it. Its gonna be lit
shadowmist101Posted:
Well of course it will not outsell GTA especially since it probably will not have as a robust online community as GTA online. For instance Red Dead Redemption had a great single player but the online aspects were lacking and got repetitive relatively quickly. Especially with how Take Two is having their hard stance on game mods, I highly doubt it's going to bring a lot of customers back that enjoyed or purchased GTA solely for that.
SuperHeroesPosted:
Can't see it outselling GTA atall not to say read dead isn't good game it's a really good game
XboxPosted:
I don't think it well outsell GTA either but I know it will do well, can't wait to play this game.
Mario350Posted:
it will outsell gta5 cause gta5 is a outdated game as long as it is on pc that is then it will outsell gta5
ZydrinPosted:
I never even played the first, just not my style of game I guess. Been looking into trying it though.
SimpPosted:
Definitely won't outsell GTA. The games has sold too many copies and too many players own it for Red Dead to sell more copies.
TOXICPosted:
Red Dead Redemption will be massive on the release, but yeah dont think it would sell as many copies as GTA V though, but then again GTA V is dead asf now lol. So I might be wrong. So excited for the lanch of Red Dead Redemption, still havent yet pre ordered mine, might have to do it this weekend.
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