Take-Two shipped more copies of Grand Theft Auto V last year than it did in 2015 or 2014

I don’t pay much attention to politics, so I must’ve missed it when congress passed a law making it mandatory that everyone has to buy Grand Theft Auto V. At least, it seems like that is a law because people will not stop buying the game.

Grand Theft Auto V had more units sold into retail in 2016 than in 2015, according to Rockstar Games parent company Take-Two Interactive. And this is not a fluke because GTA V sold better in 2015 than it did in 2014 following its mammoth launch for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2013. Take-Two has now shipped 75 million copies of GTA V across all platforms, and that makes it one of the best-selling games of all time. The reason for its success? It seems that GTA V is one of the go-to games for people purchasing new consoles. So when someone buys their first PlayStation 4, they often bring home Rockstar’s open-world crime game to go along with it. That is one of the major reasons the franchise has maintained its dominant position in the $99.6 billion global gaming industry.