GTA Online has generated $500,000,000 in revenue for Rockstar ALONE

[Fatboi1]

GTA Online has generated at least $500,000,000 in revenue, based in part on a significant cash-generating tool contained in the game.

GTA Online has the potential to achieve the greatest profit margin of any game created in the GTA franchise. In November 2015, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick announced that two years after its initial release, nearly 8,000,000 people were still playing GTA Online each week.

The Houser brothers had little interest in GTA Online, and did not focus on its development, all as reflected in Bugstar.

That's like damn near more than the amount of people who play CS:GO in a week


This is VERY alarming because this is obviously going to affect the next GTA game and probably other games. Games will probably be more focused on online only content and MP day one with season passes and shyt.

 

[Saint1]

the fukk are people spending money on? Car skins?

EDIT: I never played online

 

[Brandeezy]

the fukk are people spending money on? Car skins?

Shark Cards, i think the most expensive is the $100 one which gives you 10M in game

 

[Address_Unknown]

the fukk are people spending money on? Car skins?

EDIT: I never played online

You can buy GTA Currency for the Online portion using actual money.
It's the pay2win model that leaked over from mobile games into this current gen of console shyt.

 

[ball15life]

From a business perspective that's impressive

From a gamer perspective @ these people spending currency instead of just working their way up.

 

[Columbo]

I have over 25 million on the game, fukk shark cards

Just gotta do heists and rockets vs insurgents

 

[Mowgli]

Hopefully gta6 is even more of a blockbuster

 

[NotAnFBIagent]

Grand theft auto mmo coming soon just wait on it

 

[GoldenGlove]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/online-only-games-running-this-generation.408498/

 

[Fatboi1]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/online-only-games-running-this-generation.408498/

Every dev not Rockstar so this doesn't mean anything. if anything, I'd hope R* uses even more money to fund GTA 6 and also create an even better online.

Activision should take a lesson or two from Rockstar with Destiny 2 and create a serious SP on TOP of MP. All that paper they made there's no excuses. Destiny is a great playing game, no sense in making it a watered down Halo with drip fed online content.

I'm not mad at devs having online emphasis in their games, I just don't like when it's at the expense of a good SP or even a good MP period.

 

[daze23]

it really wouldn't surprise me if their next game was mainly multiplayer

 

[Tunez]

That Rockstar Money

 

[Address_Unknown]

From a business perspective that's impressive

From a gamer perspective @ these people spending currency instead of just working your way up.

Is 10 mill (The highest paid package you can cop...lest you do it MORE than once ) even that much in the GTA Online Universe? Unless they fixed the exploits it's like every other week dudes found a way to rack up millions in a few hours exploiting some glitch or loophole until they fixed it...and then someone found another. shyt definitely ain't worth it...but you know how some dudes be.

 

[ORDER_66]

Please lord no GTA mmo please...

 

[Fatboi1]

More info:


GTA 5’s release broke seven Guinness World Records and thrilled fans around the globe. To date, GTA 5 has generated approximately $3 billion in sales.


GTA 1 - 2 million
GTA 2 - 1 million
GTA 3 - 25 million
GTA VC - 25 million
GTA SA - 30 million
GTA IV - 25 million

Interesting. GTA SA sold 30 million LTD compared to GTA IV.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/308200451/Benzies-v-Rockstar

This is mostly from just the damn last gen versions and current gen versions alone. The PC version sold a lot but nowhere near the console versions.

the budget for GTA 6 about to be monstrous. shyt is automatically gonna be the biggest game whenever the hell it comes out.