Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto Online off to strong start after first quarter

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 3, 2014
Updated June 18, 2025
2 min

Game publisher Take-Two Interactive said that developer Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto Online game service is off to a rousing debut after a full quarter on the market.

The first online version of Grand Theft Auto has a lot going for it, since Take-Two also said in its earnings report today that it has shipped 32.5 million copies of Grand Theft Auto V since it debuted for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on Sept. 17. That is a record launch for a video game and suggests that GTA V has generated $1.95 billion in sales at retail in less than four months of sales.

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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.