So you might have heard that there is a
new game out on the market for gamers to sink their teeth into, I mean with the
marketing strategy being to teaser and please you would have to be out of touch
with the gaming community not to know it, Grand Theft Auto 5 is now alive and
kicking… Literally!
With years behind the development and a
budget that many of the latest Hollywood films to hit the cinema would have
dreamed of, Rockstar Games knew that their latest addition to the popular GTA
series was going to have to bring its ‘A Game’ if it was going to achieve what
they had set out to do… Become the best selling game of all time. Queue evil
laugh…
With improved graphics, storylines,
missions and much more on offer, the game offered a promising sense of
achievement even before the game hit
the shelves on September 17th and following its reveal during
development, reviewers revealed that they thought that the game was going to be
strong enough to overcome the title of being the highest grossing console game
of all time, a title that Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 occupied.
Statements showed that Rockstar Games
were not about to let the FPS shooter hold the crown much longer and early
predictions for the new GTA addition tipped the game to make over $1 billion
within the first month, something that seemed to be extreme at the time of
comment but that is almost a reality already… Just 2 days after release!
According to figures being passed
around the games news industry, GTA5 smashed through the entry gates of the
sales market, securing over $800 million in sales on the very first day of
release, seeing over 1.4 million copies of the game being taken home and loaded
into a gaming console as the player looked to unlock the secrets held within.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 did well on
their first day of release, making $500 million on release day and taking a matter
of weeks to clear the $1 billion gross mark but on the rate of demand of the
latest offering produced by Rockstar North, GTA 5 should clear the $1 billion
milestone in a matter of days, helped by the fact that the game is still to
launch in Japan and Brazil.
