Just days before the launch of the next installment in the series, Take-Two Interactive has announced that Grand Theft Auto 5 (GTA 5) has reached yet another major sales milestone.
The publisher held its latest earnings call for the second quarter of fiscal year 2027 on Monday, and with it came an update on the sales of a number of its top franchises, including Grand Theft Auto.
GTA 5 is still going strong
In the earnings report, Take-Two revealed that, as a franchise, GTA has sold nearly 480 million units. GTA 5 accounts for nearly half of that.
As of September 30, 2026, GTA 5 has sold around 235 million copies since launch. That keeps it in third place, behind Minecraft and Tetris, on the best-selling games list.
With GTA 6 releasing on November 19, many might start looking at how it will be able to possibly catch up to what GTA 5 has done. While it’s always possible, it’s likely to take a long time and more effort to reach that point. And it won’t happen just on these first sales alone.
GTA 5’s sales really soared once the game launched on PC and became available on next-generation consoles. Many players double- or even triple-dipped when the game launched on new hardware and PC. That will need to happen again for GTA 6 to have the same overall unit sales success that its predecessor had.
That said, it’s going to fly by records set by GTA 5 pretty quickly. In 2013, GTA 5 surpassed $800 million in 24 hours (including pre-sales) and $1 billion in sales in three days, making it the fastest-selling entertainment product in history. All reports suggest that GTA 6 has already made over $750 million in pre-sales and is expected to hit $1 billion either before or on the day of release.
There’s also the belief that it could reach as much as $5 billion in sales by the end of launch week.
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