Grand Theft Auto V: 150 million specimens sold

According to Take-Two, the company's sales fell by 2 percent to $ 813 million in the first three months, which ended on June 30, 2021, while net assets declined by 29 percent to $ 711 million. These figures exceeded the company's sales forecast, which was $ 780 million, whereby the top end of the tensioning for the net assets was $ 675 million.

Net profit for the first quarter rose by 72 percent year-on-year to $ 152 million.

The Publisher made Grand Theft Auto V, Grand Theft Auto Online, Red Dead Redemption 2, Red Dead Online and Borderlands 3 responsible for the results of the first quarter. Take-Two also pointed out that the comparison with the same quarter of the previous year, in which the game industry reported a significant increase in its results, was difficult.

"We are pleased to see that demand for the pandemic, as we expected, was higher than the demand for the pandemic, and the weakening we expected was not as serious as we expected," says Strauss Zelnick, Chairman and CEO of Take-Two, opposite Gamesindustry.biz and adds: "Since we hopefully get out of this difficult time - it's hard to know, given what happens to the Delta variant - it's nice to see That the new normality is much stronger for our business than the old normality. "

Grand Theft Auto V has exceeded the brand of 150 million units sold, and the range of Grand Theft Auto Online has increased by 72 percent compared to two years ago.

Red Dead Redemption 2 has now been sold more than 38 million copies, while Red Dead Online was able to increase its player base by 18 percent compared to the first quarter two years ago.

NBA 2K21 and Civilization VI were each sold more than 11 million versions,

The Publisher said that the 2K label will announce a new franchise in August, but not explicitly named a delayed title. Zelnick reaffirms that the pandemic has no influence on the development pipeline of Take-Two and described the delays as a result "of our infinite search for quality and fine grinding" and not as an impact of the development of at home.

With a view to the future, Take-Two resets the bar again lower than last year. For the second fiscal quarter, the company expects a decline in sales of up to 12 percent. The net profit may be in half-halving and between 41 and 53 million US dollars.

"We bring 20 titles to the market this year, and we expect us to bring about the same number of titles in the next two years," he says. "And we expect us to rebudge recodes from the financial year."