Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day

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Post by adventured » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 2:33 AM UTC

Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day
variety.com

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Post by narfquat » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 3:38 AM UTC

To put that in perspective, here is a list of opening day top grossing movies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_openin..., and the previous video game record was $500 million, for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

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Post by vijayboyapati » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 3:41 AM UTC

There goes my productivity for the next month

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Post by adamnemecek » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 3:47 AM UTC

Kind of surprised that marketing cost them more than development ($115m vs $150m).

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Post by kin » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 3:51 AM UTC

glad to see main stream articles discussing the Rockstar's industry feat vs. content controversy

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Post by jevinskie » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 3:55 AM UTC

adamnemecek wrote: post #4

Kind of surprised that marketing cost them more than development ($115m vs $150m).

$115 million? Wow. How many developers/artists/QA/management folks (or man-hours) does that buy you?

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Post by grannyg00se » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 3:59 AM UTC

That official gameplay video is really impressive if you haven't looked at the state of the art in video games lately. It looks like a wish list of gaming features put together by hardcore fans with no limits on budget or creativity.

If I didn't know the game was released and well received, I'd say there's no way in hell it would be possible to put it all together on time, on budget, and without major flaws. Damn impressive.

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Post by danielharan » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 4:02 AM UTC

jevinskie wrote: post #6

adamnemecek wrote: post #4

Kind of surprised that marketing cost them more than development ($115m vs $150m).

$115 million? Wow. How many developers/artists/QA/management folks (or man-hours) does that buy you?

Roughly 1000 person years at 115k/person/year?

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Post by jlgreco » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 4:07 AM UTC

jevinskie wrote: post #6

adamnemecek wrote: post #4

Kind of surprised that marketing cost them more than development ($115m vs $150m).

$115 million? Wow. How many developers/artists/QA/management folks (or man-hours) does that buy you?

That money bought them things like this: http://static.trustedreviews.com/94/000028992/826f/GTA-5-mur...

(That is a massive painting on the side of a building, incase that isn't clear)

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Post by DigitalSea » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 4:07 AM UTC

What is even more impressive about this figure is that it's just XBOX 360 and Playstation 3 sales. GTA V hasn't been announced for PC yet which is a severely underrated market when it comes to games I reckon. If GTA V launched with a PC version I think they would have eclipsed $1 billion in 24 hours, easily, if not 1.1.

I played this yesterday (I don't own a console) at a friends house and what they've been able to achieve on these consoles is impressive considering these consoles aren't next gen and are resource limited.