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GTAIV is the second best-selling Grand Theft Auto game ever, Take-Two has announced.

The fourth instalment, released April 2008, has now sold 20 million copies worldwide. GTA: San Andreas leads with 21.5 million sales (as of April 2008).

The entire GTA franchise has sold 70 million units as of April 29th, 2008. That figure didn't include GTAIV, which means the series will have tipped over the 90 million mark now.

The GTAIV numbers come from a Wedbush Morganpresentation published online.

Last year Take-Two turned a profit without Grand Theft Auto - a feat worth shouting about, over and over again. The enabler of all this was Red Dead Redemption, a wild west cowboy game, which has now sold 8 million copies.

Take-Two went on to note 4 million sales of NBA 2K11, a game gifted a year free of a rival when EA withdrew NBA Elite 11.

Borderlands has also been a success, the franchise (all versions of the game) selling 4 million copies.

No other games were singled out - the chatter instead turning to franchises: Midnight Club has sold 18 million copies; Civilization 10 million, BioShock 8 million, Max Payne 7 million, Mafia 5 million and Carnival 4 million.

The next big thing from Rockstar and Take-Two is L.A. Noire, an impressively motion-captured, openworld detective game due May.

Take-Two also has Duke Nukem Forever, The Darkness II, BioShock Infinite, X-COM, Spec Ops: The Line, Top Spin 4, Carnival Games: Monkey See, Monkey Do and Major League Baseball 2K11.

Judging by the above sales, new instalments in the Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead and Borderlands franchises are also likely. Rumours are already circulating about Grand Theft Auto V, the cast of which appeared to be leaked earlier this week. Could Rockstar be planning an E3 reveal?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-03-10-t2-grand-theft-auto-iv-sold-20-million

VGC numbers: 360: 8.49m PS3: 7.31m PC: ?       Total: 15.8m unknown PC sales

It is probably undertracked unless it sold more than 3m in PC.

edit: the sales are about GTAIV

Theres no way it sold that much on PC, its undertracked on here as usual.

Pretty interested to see the split between 360, PS3 and PC... And if this data includes the GTA 4 DLC too.

I've just checked our total GTA4 sales, including the Episodes from Liberty City add ons.

360/PS3 totals come up to 18.5 Million units. It's not that hard to imagine 1.5 Million PC sales for the game.

Great tracking, VGChartz... If these numbers include the Episodic Content

I very much doubt they do, Liberty City on 360 sold the bulk on XBL, no reason they wouldn't include these numbers. And I bet it did at least 2 mill on XBL alone.

360 version is probably approaching 10 mill

I aslo doubt PC/Steam added any significant numbers.

I'd say around a million undertracked between 360 and PS3.

Don't see much more than 2m sales on PC and in other news Rockstar said it's nearly 20m shipped.

And yeah just like NPD showed, NBA 2K11 still undertracked by about 300k on each HD console.

Hey I just found some older data from Take-Two for comparison's sake (recent number in brackets):

From 12/03/2008

Grand Theft Auto -  66 million (>100 million)
Midnight Club - 11.5 million (18 million)
Manhunt - 1.5 million
Bully - 1.5 million
Red Dead - 1.5 million (>9.5m million)
Civilization - 8 million (>10 million)
Max Payne - 7 million (7 million)
Mafia - 2 million (5 million)
BioShock - 2 million (~8 million)
Carnival Games - approaching 1 million (>7 million)
(Borderlands - 4 million)

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-03-10-gta-iv-sales-near-20-million

Ah where is 2009 when their were plenty threads full with GTA IV sales.....Devs should not make games on the HD consoles....GTAIV sales are horrible!  It sold a lot less than GTA: SA! And it probably has costed a lot more to make! 

And then this...Interesting thx :).

in the past there were some people on this site thst said Take-Two said the sales were almost equal on the ps3 aas on the xbox.

but no one ever posted sources for that comment, but if thats true, and ps3 has sales closer to the xbox GTA sales than the vgchartz numbers, it would make sense for it being 20 million total.