Red Dead Redemption 2 PS4 May Sell Twice As Much As Xbox One

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Red Dead Redemption 2 is out today, ending many, many years of fervent anticipation for millions of people across the globe, and you can bet your bottom dollar that the game’s going to sell like hot cakes. Analysts have predicted that it could go on to sell as much as 8 million copies within just three days of its release, and for once, that doesn’t seem like an overreaching estimate.

Industry analyst Michael Pachter has made similar predictions about the game’s commercial success. While speaking with us, Pachter said that he expects Red Dead Redemption 2 to sell as many as 17 million units be the end of this year, also mentioning that Take-Two – who report sell-in figures rather than sell-through ones – will report as many as 20 million units sold.

“I expect it to sell 15 million at least, possibly 17 million by the end of December,” Pachter told GamingBolt. “Take-Two often comments on sell-IN (sales to the retailer) instead of sell-THROUGH (sales made by retailers to consumers), so it’s possible they will talk about a number as high as 20 million.”

He also went on to say that the game’s PS4 version will be significantly more successful than its Xbox One version- according to Pachter, Red Dead Redemption 2’s sales ratio will be around 2:1 in the PS4’s favour. Considering the much higher install base on Sony’s system, that makes plenty of sense.

Today, reports also emerged that the launch of Red Dead Redemption 2 resulted in a boos to Take-Two Interactive’s stocks. With Red Dead Online also coming next month, we can see these impressive figures being sustained for plenty of time to come.



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JastyPosted:

I wonder why, I don't really care but I will be playing it on the xbox one x, can not complain about a native 4K. Game looks beautiful on the one x.

VodkaPosted:

Mario350
Mike Dang wonder why so many ppl will be on ps4


because ps4 is a better console as they have more players playing it and they didnt shoot themselves in the head by making the marketing focus on 24h always needing online or be bricked/door stopper and they didnt focus on only tv and what the kinect can do(ps camera version is much worst) but yeah theres alot of reasons, the pro and the x both just checkerboard anyways but the exclusive deal i believe is ps4 first then xbox idk, but yeah more people will be on ps4 as it has the most players and is this gen xbox 360(terms of not being banned for swearing over voice chat and messages)


Don't forget that the ps4 had all the same features as the xbox one but because the xbox went first at e3 they saw the backlash and quickly changed their presentation, that's why on the ps4 there was a day one patch to remove those features, the xbox changed a fair bit once they got rid of that dude that wanted always online, now theyre more game focused rather than media

Mario350Posted:

Mike Dang wonder why so many ppl will be on ps4


because ps4 is a better console as they have more players playing it and they didnt shoot themselves in the head by making the marketing focus on 24h always needing online or be bricked/door stopper and they didnt focus on only tv and what the kinect can do(ps camera version is much worst) but yeah theres alot of reasons, the pro and the x both just checkerboard anyways but the exclusive deal i believe is ps4 first then xbox idk, but yeah more people will be on ps4 as it has the most players and is this gen xbox 360(terms of not being banned for swearing over voice chat and messages)

XboxPosted:

I'll be playing this game all weekend it is lit!

MikePosted:

Dang wonder why so many ppl will be on ps4

LebronIs6Posted:

XBL-AB
lbreadstickl Sounds about right as I'm not buying it. Looks like a great game, but I prefer to play with friends. If it had co-op I'd be sold


It has online coming in two weeks....

I laugh at this because ps4 pro doesnt even do proper 4k like the xb1x and xb1 will always have better graphics for this game entirely thanks to the x


Exactly man 4K monitor with Xbox One X is true 4K period no debate

XBL-ABPosted:

lbreadstickl Sounds about right as I'm not buying it. Looks like a great game, but I prefer to play with friends. If it had co-op I'd be sold


It has online coming in two weeks....

I laugh at this because ps4 pro doesnt even do proper 4k like the xb1x and xb1 will always have better graphics for this game entirely thanks to the x

lbreadsticklPosted:

Sounds about right as I'm not buying it. Looks like a great game, but I prefer to play with friends. If it had co-op I'd be sold

LebronIs6Posted:

Makes sense because the sales PS4 did before Xbox one X and the exclusivity

RuiPosted:

Bound to happen with the console exclusivity