Grand Theft Auto V hits 33M units sold, or almost $2B in retail sales

Take-Two Interactive Software reported today that it has sold more than 33 million copies of Grand Theft Auto V since its launch last September. That means the game has generated an estimated $1.98 billion in retail sales.

Take-Two said that GTA V was the best-selling console game in 2013 in North America, Latin America, and Europe. The open world mayhem game was the fastest to reach $1 billion in sales in video game history, said Strauss Zelnick, chairman of New York-based Take-Two.

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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.