Take-Two has announced that Grand Theft Auto V has shipped more than 80 million units worldwide, while 2K’s Mafia III has now sold-in more than 5 million units. NBA 2K17 has nearly shipped 8 million units and Civilization VI has sold-in nearly 2 million units.
In addition, Take-Two revealed that the entire Civilization series has sold more than 40 million units worldwide.
Now while Take-Two did not reveal any specific platform numbers, we can take a look at Steamspy in order to get an idea of what is happening.
According to Steamspy’s datas, Civilization VI has sold 1.89 million units on the PC (which is identical to Take-Two’s numbers).
GTA V has sold 7.15 million units on Steam, however we should keep in mind that the game is also available for purchase via Rockstar’s Social Club. As such, we can’t determine the exact number of PC units that were sold for this particular title.
Mafia III has sold 520K units on Steam. Apparently PC gamers did not enjoy this new Mafia game. Still, you should keep in mind that Take-Two did not reveal the number of units that were sold, but rather the number of units that were shipped to stores.
Last but not least, NBA 2K17 has sold 245K units on Steam.
In unrelated news, Take-Two has announced that a highly anticipated new title from one of 2K’s biggest franchises is currently under development.
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Hopefully Mafia III is doing well. 2K needs to learn lesson from that sad long time coming game.
GTAV set the bar on what a polished quality game with no required paid DLC is supposed to look like.
The bar is damn high.
And the Shark cards. Never forget the Shark cards.
And yet, Rockstar didn’t even bother to release one AAA story or map expansion…Sad, what else to say.
Also the game saw a significant drop in difficulty, GTA V plays itself for the most part.
compared to gta iv? That game was super easy.
No sh*t, gotta keep the player’s hands free for the other tasks one does when sitting on a couch by themselves while playing Grand Theft Auto……….. Specifically, that one solo task, you know the one, right?
;D
no need when idiots keep buying shark cards.same as star citizen and morons keep buying ships.why ruin the profit train.
Yeah the majority of those GTA V sales are the result of triple dippers and last gen sales combined with current gen, it’s absolutely no surprise as to it’s size in sales.
Mafia III earning 5m is an actual disappointment because it came out as half baked shoddy form of a game.
I expected Civ to sell more, seeing as how Strategy games these days are comprised mostly of turn/grid based games, so I expected that crowd to be in the millions of millions and buy it in droves.
Atleast mafia 3 was made by a new studio, so it wont close down. I dont think they see it like you do, the fact it sold despite being a mess adn no denuvo, is a good thing. Next game they make wil be better.
How do we know it will be better in every way and more than III?.
If they did a bad job once, I’d honestly hold them to it the next time. if they do it again, well I’m sorry but it’s time to get out.
because almost always does. If you think that the first game a studio makes is an example of all their games then you are clueless. I mean fck, look at surge, it is far better than lords of the fallen.
“because almost always does.”
Yet we don’t know this for definite sure with the studio.
Surge has it’s own host of issues as well as being reviewed for acting like yet another Souls clone, I don’t really think being a souls clone is a factually good idea.
” I don’t really think being a souls clone is a factually good idea.”
Nor do i, but to be honest i dont really think that making mafia 3 another scripted linear generic story game is a facutally good idea. Blowing up gangs with a m79 though, thats more enjoyable.
And yet we know the next one will feature another scripted story where we are a character that was burned by some rival gang or gang we once teamed up with.
Mafia is always going to end up rolling with a predictable and low wit kind of story/layout.
Agreed.
Mafia III is probably a disappointment to them as well, if it’s any consolation – albeit, in terms of sales, rather than quality.
Civ 6 was sh*t, being the problem.
I’ve never understood the popularity of this franchise. The games are to me average at best and V had the most unlikable characters I have ever encountered in a game.
I guess it must be popular with the teens.
Well, gta is obviously not as good as they say but compare gtav mpas and enviroment, vehicles and npcs to sleepingdogs or mafia 3 or just cause or even ubisoft’s games. They feel more real, they are more detailed and complex. Rockstar definetly has the assets and the polish to make amazing games but sticks to the same generic formula again and again.
They changed the formula somewhat on IV (with a darker more realistic story with believable characters) and people didn’t like it. The masses want a playable Hollywood blockbuster with stereotypical Italian mobsters and black gang members and that’s what V is and it’s been a huge success.
You can’t blame Rockstar for giving the people what they want.
It’s popular with adults as well. I work with a few guys that bought PS4’s just for this game.
“None of the missions utilized the open world. What a waste”
Like? I think this is problem with all open world games, they do not utilize the potential of the open world. Just like battlefield singleplayer never utilizes the potential of its assets from mp.
This about sums up GTA 5 and its Online community
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/318c386884106f7a8b8a024cc4e2b5102d61238418fbe76d0c783df1a4729293.jpg
Stupid as a pickle
Not to mention the fact they released the game almost 2 years late, at full price and all the PC master enthusiasts gobbled up the short end of that tasty stick. (especially now with all the bans)
Hopefully they end up making a much better, balanced game next time and that money goes to good use.. although I don’t think these sales figures send the right message.
Bunch of weird-*ss f*cking nutjobs?
“GTA V has sold 7.15 million units on Steam, however we should keep in mind that the game is also available for purchase via Rockstar’s Social Club. As such, we can’t determine the exact number of PC units that were sold for this particular title”
well in that case i tell you exactly how many pc “units” are out there. it’s
7.15 million
What.
He’s implying they didn’t sell a lot of copies on Rockstar’s Social Club which is probably true.
The physical copies go through Rockstar Social Club, unless the box cover specifically specifies otherwise, so, yeah……..
Rockstar Social Club may not have sold many (if any at all, really) digital copies, sure, but there’s a whole lot of unaccounted for physical sales that don’t show up on SteamSpy because they’re not redeemable on Steam, period.
Digital sales of the Rockstar Social Club version are probably a lot higher than you’re both presuming. Many of the best price deals for the game have been for that version.
Sure, but how many people actually know it exists? How many sites report it, etc. The mainstream audience is only so much aware of Steam as it is, & uPlay is barely on anyone’s radar by comparison, even though that also has some better deals on U-BE-SOFT games, so can you imagine something as minor as Rockstar’s Social Club?
No doubt a well informed, experienced digital purchasing gamer will know to check Rockstar Social Club (assuming they don’t mind buying it off Steam), but that’s like a one-in-half-a-million, at least.
One doesn’t need to “check Rockstar Social Club” for prices because the well known deals sites, e.g. hotukdeals et al, and the various key vending sites list all such deals.
Sure, the Steam version will have sold in greater quantities but to claim that the Rockstar Social Club version sold next to nothing (disc-based version excepted) is, in my opinion, likely to be a misguided assumption.
Ah, right, yeah, good point on the deal sites, though I do want to highlight the difference between the CD key sites that get their codes from the physical boxes, coupons, etc. & the deal sites that get their codes digitally, directly from the publisher.
Though overall I’d still credit the Rockstar Social Club with less sales than your average U-BE-SOFT game garners on uPlay, at the end of the day. Maybe not by the widest of margins, absolutely, but it’s definitely only contributed “that” much, in the end.
Good thinking, however, yeah.
good job guys just give them reasons not to release gta 6.just like star citizen why launch it when you morons keep ships and shark cards…lol.as they see it why let the money maker die milk them for all they got.
Mafia 3 should be banned,worst game ,most broken piece of trash