Currently a bit overshadowed by the impending bombshell release of Grand Theft Auto 6, its sister series at Rockstar, Red Dead Redemption, continues chugging along.
According to Take-Two’s latest earnings report, RDR2 has nearly crossed the threshold of 90 million units sold since it was released in 2018. As it stands, the epic western RPG has sold a staggering 89 million units to date.
Red Dead Redemption 2 Continues to Sell 8 Years Later
This new sales number of 89 million units for Red Dead Redemption 2 is thoroughly impressive, as Rockstar is now nearing having two games that have broken into the extremely rare 100m+ copies sold category. In fact, in addition to GTA5, only two other titles have ever surpassed the nine-figure threshold in the history of video games: Tetris and Minecraft.
While GTA5 itself sits well over 200 million copies sold to date and Red Dead Redemption 2 realistically won’t ever catch it, it’s still incredible for Rockstar to have captured this level of lightning in a bottle twice. Having the third and fourth best-selling games ever is no small feat.
With Take-Two and Rockstar’s sights now firmly fixed on the release of Grand Theft Auto 6 on November 19th, there’s no telling how long Red Dead Redemption 2 can actually hold on to the fourth spot on the all-time best-selling games list. If GTA5 sales are an indicator of GTA6’s incoming popularity, it might not be long until it can catch RDR2.
Still, what Red Dead Redemption 2 has managed to achieve since launch is impressive, and Rockstar doesn’t seem like they plan on slowing down any time soon.
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Ethan Krieger got started as a sports journalist covering the NBA, but video games have always been his main passion. Since then, he's edited and written for multiple gaming outlets,…
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