Via page 15 from the Benzies v Rockstar lawsuit:

well damn

And this is why microtransactions are here to stay.

the article implies like we should celebrate it

Wow. They could just use a great big portion of the microtransaction profits alone to fund GTAVI. That's kind of astounding.

Taken from a lawsuit, so it is definitely written from an implicating side in an attempt to strengthen an argument.  Not at all an unbiased approach.

Holy crap.As Hylian has said, the microtransations profits alont were able to pay for the development of GTA5 and probably can also pay for GTA6.And they will probably make even more money with them.Thats beyond impressive.

I dont like Rockstar games, but I have to admit that they have done an incredible job at selling their games.

Holy.... man GTA is big :| GTA VI will be absolutely a monster this generation. People will go absolutely wild about it.

$500,000,000 / 365 * 2 (two years) = $685,000 a day.
If 8,000,000 was the lowest amount of people that had played it would mean that every one that played contributed (on average) less than
$685,000 / 8,000,000 = $0.085 a day!

EDIT: It is 8,000,000 a week!
Does that mean a little more than 1,000,000 a day? In that case it will be $0.6 a day!

GTA6 free to play confirmed :P