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GTA IV ships 22 million units worldwide

  • Posted September 15th, 2011 at 12:40 EDT by Mike Harradence
  • 6 Comments

Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick has confirmed that Grand Theft Auto IV has shipped 22 million copies globally since its launch in April 2008.

Zelnick dropped the news during his talk at ThinkEquity’s annual Growth conference (via IndustryGamers), where he also revealed that the GTA franchise has shipped a whopping 114 million units worldwide.

In addition, the executive also confirmed that Red Dead Redemption has shipped 12.5 million units worldwide, while the BioShock series has shipped 9 million copies since its inception in 2007.

Midnight Club, meanwhile, has shipped 18.5 million units globally, while Civilization has shipped 11 million. 

Bringing up the rear is the Max Payne franchise, which has shipped 7.5 million units to date, followed by Mafia at 5 million.

Finally, The Darkness has shipped 1 million units worldwide, with a sequel currently in the works for a 2012 launch.

 

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  1. claud3 | Hollow-Agartha29BC

    • 9:22am EDT - September 15th, 2011

    congrats to all the games that have shipped over 1 million and congrats for GTA IV selling  22 million units

  2. Drebin296 | Drebin296

    • 9:31am EDT - September 15th, 2011

    That's nice. Now

     

    GTA V?

  3. claud3 | Hollow-Agartha29BC

    • 9:58am EDT - September 15th, 2011

    i wonder since the thoughts, that GTA V selling over 22million copies, We will see

  4. hush404

    • 10:03am EDT - September 15th, 2011

    Erm... I bought GTAIV when it came out - bought the GTAIV+LC pack and then again, cheap on steam... does that count toward their 22mill? Kinda throws it off when people buy multiple eh?

  5. claud3 | Hollow-Agartha29BC

    • 10:18am EDT - September 15th, 2011

    yes it counts.. But then again, they go buy retail sales alone and they minus out the rebuying on the cheap and downloading on steam

  6. princevegeta1980

    • 11:07am EDT - September 16th, 2011

    Still havn't brought "red dead redemption" but then again i'll surely be buying it second hand or if they sell a copy with all the DLC included I would buy that instead!

     

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    April 29th, 2008
    Developer:
    Rockstar North
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