{"id":50972,"date":"2013-09-19T16:52:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T14:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=50972"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:09:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:09:40","slug":"could-anything-beat-gta-vs-launch-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/could-anything-beat-gta-vs-launch-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Could anything beat GTA V&#8217;s launch sales?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/gta-v\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>GTA V<\/strong><\/a> has become further proof that for launches at least, video games are the biggest form of entertainment in the world. In its first 24 hours, Rockstar&#8217;s violent sandbox clocked up sales of over <strong>$800 million<\/strong>, far ahead of<a href=\"http:\/\/call-of-duty-black-ops-2.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <strong>Call of Duty Black Ops 2<\/strong><\/a>, which managed $500 million.<\/p>\n<p>That gives GTA V still quite a journey if it wants to top the eventual $2 billion that the movie <strong>Avatar<\/strong> eventually grossed, but it&#8217;s far ahead of anything else for opening sales.<\/p>\n<p>How can an annual release like Activision&#8217;s Call of Duty compete? This year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/call-of-duty%3a-ghosts\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Call of Duty: Ghosts<\/strong><\/a> seems muted compared to the Black Ops 2 launch, while other franchises create much more buzz, like <a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/e3-2013-battlefield-4-multiplayer-preview\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Battlefield 4<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/assassins-creed-iv\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Assassin&#8217;s Creed IV: Black Flag<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the next time someone tries to belittle the cultural importance of video games, you can remind them that no other form of popular culture has the same impact today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/gta-v-review\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Read our review of Grand Theft Auto V<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidthier\/2013\/09\/18\/gta-5-sells-800-million-in-one-day\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forbes<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GTA V has become further proof that for launches at least, video games are the biggest form of entertainment in the world. In its first 24 hours, Rockstar&#8217;s violent sandbox clocked up sales of over $800 million, far ahead of Call of Duty Black Ops 2, which managed $500 million. That gives GTA V still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/could-anything-beat-gta-vs-launch-sales\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Could anything beat GTA V&#8217;s launch sales?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-50972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332178,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50972\/revisions\/332178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50972"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=50972"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=50972"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=50972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}