Grand Theft Auto V is the Best Selling Game in US; Microtransactions Are Big Business

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  • Grand Theft Auto V is the Best Selling Game in US; Microtransactions Are Big Business

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    Take-Two Interactive busted out their Q2 FY2018 financials this week and with it came a few interesting tidbits. First up, it revealed that Grand Theft Auto V is now the best selling video game of all time... in the United States.
    "Grand Theft Auto V has now sold in more than 85 million units. According to The NPD Group, Grand Theft Auto V is now the all-time best-selling video game, both in revenues and units, based on combined U.S. digital and physical sales across PC, console and portable."

    In addition, Take-Two also revealed that microtransactions account for nearly 50% of the company's total net revenues.
    Net revenue was $443.6 million, as compared to $420.2 million in last year’s fiscal second quarter. Recurrent consumer spending (virtual currency, add-on content and microtransactions) grew 66% year-over-year and accounted for 48% of total net revenue. The largest contributors to net revenue in fiscal second quarter 2018 were NBA® 2K17, Grand Theft Auto® Online and Grand Theft Auto V, WWE SuperCard and WWE 2K17, and XCOM 2.

    So if you thought that microtransactions were going away, hahahahaha... ha... no.
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