GTA V is the best selling Retail game of all time!

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AlfredoTurkey on 08 January 2015

Clyde32 said:

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Lawlight said:
Good on R* for building the biggest game franchise ever.

The top 5 Mario games sell more than the entire GTA franchise.

Since gta first existed Mario sold way less. Gta more relevant now

Since GTA first existed just excludes Super Mario Bros out of the top 5. Top 8 Mario games released after GTA outsell the entire franchise.

Nearly 7 games, just 1 million off.

You can't count handheld Marios. Apples to apples.

I counted Handheld GTA games.

Exactly. Lets compare console versions, since this is about consoles... not handhelds. Get back to me on that.

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AnthonyW86 on 08 January 2015

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GTA V is the best story based video game of all time. That takes care of the Wii sports argument.

Well writen stories you mean ? Don't think so. Gta serie have many qualities, but the story-telling and narration are not one of the package for me. Gta games are poorly writen. The character have little to no depth whatsoever mainly because while rockstar know how to create interesting main characters (Trevor and John marston) they don't really know what to do with them. End of their games are also very poor.

Sorry i meant best selling story based game. People alway's argue what's the line between a game like GTA and Wii sports, and why the latter shouldn't be compared directly. My answer to that was that GTA is put together with a story, while Wii Sports is simply a collection of mini games.

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Clyde32 on 08 January 2015

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Exactly. Lets compare console versions, since this is about consoles... not handhelds. Get back to me on that.

Since when?

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Ninsect said:

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Edit thread title to "Best selling retail game of all time (revenue)"

Ok.

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Dr.Vita on 08 April 2015

Grand Theft Auto V (Global): 43.21M -> 7th March 2015
- Grand Theft Auto V (PS3): 19.41M
- Grand Theft Auto V (X360): 15.07M
- Grand Theft Auto V (PS4): 6.28M
- Grand Theft Auto V (XOne): 2.45M

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Pretty incredible numbers, I'm pretty curious where it's going to land when all is said and done.

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AnthonyW86 on 08 April 2015

What about if we adjust the number for inflation. Like the money supply the amount of people in the world has increased since Mario Bros. released. Not to mention the amount of gamers/ size of the market.