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GTA series sales upmost 355 million as GTA 3 hits its 20th day of remembrance

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As GTA 3 marks its 20th day of remembrance, Rockstar Games' parent ship's company has revealed that more than 355 million GTA games have been sold across its entire history.

The figure comes from Take-Two Interactive Software's latest financial report, which consecrate a slide to the performance of the GTA series overall and GTA 5 and GTA Online in particular. While the series began in 1997 with the fresh Grand Theft Motorcar, the massive further in popularity it received with the arrival of GTA 3 way the vast majority of those sales likely started from 2001 onward.

The synoptical presentation besides reveals that GTA 5 has accounted for nearly fractional of those series sales complete by itself, with gross gross sales of more than 155 million copies so utmost. That's crosswise its deuce different console generations and Personal computer releases, and the figure out obviously doesn't account for withal many many gross revenue GTA 5 is bound to rack up when its dedicated PS5 and Xbox Serial publication X versions arrive in March 2022, which is as wel when the standalone version of GTA Online is set to launch.

Lag, those older chapters of the GTA franchise are poised for a comeback of their own with the impending arrival of the GTA Trilogy on November 11. You'll too be competent to snag the remastered version of San Andreas on Xbox Game Pass starting that same daylight.

Things aren't all roses for Take-Two, however: the company also confirmed that IT newly canceled an unannounced game which it had already spent $53 million on developing .

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