Arthur Morgan rides his horse in Red Dead Redemption 2.
Arthur Morgan rides his horse in Red Dead Redemption 2.
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Red Dead Redemption ships massive 17 million copies in first 8 days

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games announced that Red Dead Redemption 2 has “sold-in,” or shipped to retailers, more than 17 million copies in its first eight days of sales.

The epic Western game has an average score of 97-out-of-100 on review aggregator Metacritic , and Take-Two had previously said it sold through to consumers more than $725 million in the first three days of sales after they started on October 26.

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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.