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Grand Theft Auto V tops $1B in three days

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Urban mayhem video game Grand Theft Auto V has sold $1 billion in its first three days in retail.

That makes this GTA the fastest-selling entertainment property in history. Its sales tallied more than $800 million in its first 24 hours on the market. It has also received critical acclaim, scoring a 98 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic. Not only has it beat a previous record set by the Call of Duty franchise, the sales numbers have also beat previous records of feature films.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.