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Forums - Sales Discussion - RDR2 Achieves Entertainment's Biggest Opening Weekend of All Time ($725m)

Mordred11 on 30 October 2018
shikamaru317 said:

Comparison to the most popular Call of Duty games and GTA V:

-GTA V- $1b in 3 days
-RDR2- $725m in 3 days
-Black Ops 2- $500m in 1 day and $1b in 15 days
-Black Ops 3- $550m in 3 days
-Black Ops 4- $500m in 3 days
-MW3- $400m in 1 day and $775m in 5 days
-Black Ops 1- $360m in 1 day and $650m in 5 days
-MW2- $310m in 1 day and $550m in 5 days

Yeah but let's not forget COD comes out every year. GTA and RDR can pull out numbers like those only because there are years of hype behind the launches.



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deeps on 30 October 2018

Can't wait to see the actual copies sold



Mordred11 on 30 October 2018

So, RDR2's retail sales were 27% of GTAV's in the UK and yet here we see it did over 70% of GTAV's business worldwide in the same timeframe. That's a good indicator of how big digital has got since GTAV's launch.



zorg1000 on 30 October 2018
Mordred11 said:
So, RDR2's retail sales were 27% of GTAV's in the UK and yet here we see it did over 70% of GTAV's business worldwide in the same timeframe. That's a good indicator of how big digital has got since GTAV's launch.

And how irrelevant UK sales are for coming up with WW numbers.



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Noobie on 30 October 2018
zorg1000 said:
Mordred11 said:
So, RDR2's retail sales were 27% of GTAV's in the UK and yet here we see it did over 70% of GTAV's business worldwide in the same timeframe. That's a good indicator of how big digital has got since GTAV's launch.

And how irrelevant UK sales are for coming up with WW numbers.

More accurate would be 

How incomplete UK sales charts are without digital sales. 



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Hynad on 30 October 2018

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zorg1000 on 30 October 2018
Noobie said:
zorg1000 said:

And how irrelevant UK sales are for coming up with WW numbers.

More accurate would be 

How incomplete UK sales charts are without digital sales. 

Indeed, I think they are going to be included starting in January so that should help alot.



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EricHiggin on 30 October 2018

This is to be expected from Rockstar by now, but another huge achievement nonetheless. I wonder how much bigger the potential audience was when GTAV launched on PS3 and 360? It must have been quite a bit larger than the PS4 and XB1 audience right now, so there is that to take into consideration, along with the games old western style.



KazumaKiryu on 31 October 2018
Noobie said:

Rockstar Games® is proud to announce that the critically acclaimed Red Dead Redemption 2 has achieved the single-biggest opening weekend in the history of entertainment*. With over $725 million in worldwide retail sell-through during its first three days, Red Dead Redemption 2 is the second-highest grossing entertainment launch of all time next to Rockstar Games' previously released title, Grand Theft Auto V, which achieved over $1 billion in retail sell-through in three days.*

Red Dead Redemption 2's list of initial benchmarks include:

  • Biggest opening weekend in retail sell-through across all entertainment releases;
  • Second biggest launch (three days) in retail sell-through across all entertainment releases;
  • Biggest entertainment launch of 2018;
  • Most pre-ordered full game ever on PlayStation Network;
  • Biggest day one full game sales ever on PlayStation Network;
  • Biggest first three days full game sales ever on PlayStation Network.
These numbers for sure include digital. 
*Red Dead Redemption 2 launched on a Friday so that its ‘opening weekend’ (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) is the same as its first three days, while Grand Theft Auto V launched on a Tuesday.

Gratulation !! With God of the War the best Game of the Year for the most players. Earned! @ Rockstar Games