Take-Two expects GTA V sales of $ 18 million. For the first year

Speaking at a recent conference Technology, Media u0026 Telecom Head Take-Two outlined plans for publishing sales Grand Theft Auto V, Published in September.

The hotly anticipated by gamers all over the world game should disperse a circulation of 18,000,000 copies in the first year from the date of the release, said Strauss Zelnik. He also recalled that GTA IV, Launched in spring 2008, it has been realized in the amount of 25,000,000 copies in all that time.

"Right now, GTA V It shows a very, very, very, good statistics on pre-order, "- explained the head of the gathered journalists.


In addition Zelnik asked to comment on the issue of additional profits from the resale of used games, which Microsoft and (possibly) Sony considered in the case of Xbox One and PS4 respectively. Head Take-Two He believes that such a move can be very beneficial for platformoderzhateley source of income, but at the same time hurt major retailers like GameStop.

In the latter sold about 50% of all new games PS3 and Xbox 360 of the total amount sold in the United States. Therefore, if such a strong retailer, because the above-described system will have problems, it may ultimately have a negative impact on sales of new products.

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