Take -Two will die: GTA 5 has not made its 5 million quarterly sales – news

We no longer know exactly when the game released in September 2013 began to sell five million copies each semester that passes, but it has been a long time since the Rockstar Games game climbed this infinite tower with a regularity never taken. During the previous Take-Two quarterly assessment, GTA 5 had thus gone from 210 to 215 million sales, as usual. But now, stupor and tremors, for the first time in an eternity, Take-Two indicates that GTA 5 is still in the 215 million sales area and that it has not, this time, has not sold its 5 million quarterly copies. How to get up after such a failure? Good question. That said, the balance sheet also reveals that the GTA franchise is approaching 455 million sales, which has been 5 million more since the previous quarter, for once.

The other Rockstar Games star, Red Dead Redemption 2, went from 74 to 77 million games sold worldwide between April and June 2025, allowing the series to reach 104 million. At the same time, the NBA 2K, Borderlands and Civilization franchises, respectively 162 million, 94 million and 77 million games sold worldwide. NBA 2K25 shone again with 11.5 million sales.

Beyond the slowdown in sales of GTA 5which had to happen one day, Take-Two begins his new tax exercise with much better mine than the previous one. In addition to increasing turnover, the group has mainly reduced its losses, which are only 10 million euros, compared to 224.6 million euros in the same quarter a year earlier. In addition to the sure values that are GTA Online et NBA 2Ksome mobile games from Zynga and Rollic Games have done better than expected, especially Toon Blast, Match Factory, NBA All-Star et Color Block Jam.

This first trimester much better than Sandressed pushed Take-Two management to enhance its annual forecasts. The turnover for the 12 months of the financial year is now expected at 5.2 billion euros (and no longer 5 billion euros), while the annual net loss, initially expected to 376 million euros, could be reduced to 323 million euros. Courage is the last fiscal year before the release of Grand Theft Auto 6, May 26, 2026.

The main cartridges of the group for the rest of the fiscal year include Mafia: The Old Country, which has just released, NBA 2K26 (September 5, 2025), Borderlands 4 (September 12, 2025) and WWE 2K26 (early 2026). Judas (Ghost Story Games) and Project Ethos (31st Union) still do not have a release date, knowing that one is still more expected than the other. As for the next Bioshock, it is better not to be too in a hurry either.

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