With the announcement of MK8D getting DOUBLE the amount of racetracks and support through the end of 2023, and with GTAV still chugging along, I thought it would be interesting to compare these two games. Obviously lifetime sales GTAV wins no contest, but when you look at the per device averages per year, things get more interesting!
GTA V has been out roughly 9 years and sold 160,000,000+ copies.
MK8 has been out 8 years and sold 51,810,000+ copies.
GTA V has released on 5 devices (PS3, PS4, XB360, XBOne, and PC).
MK8 has released on 2 devices.
The average of GTA V per year across all systems is 17.78 million a year.
The average of MK8 per year across all systems is 6.48 million a year.
But this is where it gets interesting...
The average of GTA V per system per year is 3.55 million.
The average of MK8 per system per year is 3.24 million.
And that is a fun comparison worth keeping our eyes on in the coming years. Since MK9 is without a doubt coming after 2023 now, and probably GTA6 as well, this will be a fun thing to track for the next (at least) year and 10 months!
Last edited by Dulfite - on 09 February 2022
