Update: 17.5 million units! - Grand Theft Auto V Smashes Global Week One Sales Record

[Augen]

Ail said:

Augen said:
It is very impressive. I am curious as to who these people are that bought it. This year or so have watched dozens of titles sell much less than hopped with few cracking seven figures (some even flopped at 5 figures). Yet, here comes GTA V smashing through 8 and likely 9 figures. So either a ton of people only bought this or it has such massive cross appeal that every group bought it.

In any event, good for the industry to show such a block buster game is still possible.

The difference between GTA and other games is that they are not trying to milk every $ out of you by releasing a new version every year or so...

Many games that flopped that I had hopes for were brand new entries (Wonderful 101 and Puppeteer are recent example just this past month).

If anything, the series that do milk (CoD, BF, AC, NFL, FIFA) seem to find great success while something like Sly Cooper after long hiatus barely makes a dent.

I am just always curious as my expectations for sales has been lowered  a lot lately then GTA V comes along and stuns me with success I simply did not think possible.