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GTA Online is doing better than ever

Take-Two says the game exceeded their expectations over the last three months.
Eirik Hyldbakk Furu Editor-in-Chief Norway 3 August 2017

It's been four years since Grand Theft Auto V launched, but those of you who follow the sales charts and other news knows that the game is still selling like hotcakes. However, we still can't help but be surprised when Take-Two and Rockstar reveal just how well it's doing.

They've announced that GTA V, including GTA Online, exceeded their net sales expectations, and was the single largest contributor to recurrent consumer spending for the last quarter. The companies even tells us that GTA Online had its best quarter ever, much due to the release of the Gunrunning update. This is one of the main reasons why their total net sales for the quarter increased by 28 percent, up to $348.3 million. And some people wondered why the company wasn't worried about delaying Red Dead Redemption 2...

Are you still playing GTA V and/or GTA Online?

Editor-in-Chief Norway Eirik Hyldbakk Furu wrote for Gamereactor from around 2015 to 2026, first as news editor and from 2022 as editor-in-chief of the Norwegian edition. He covered video games across news, previews and reviews for both the Norwegian and international sites.
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