Why it issues: Opt-Two Interactive has published its Q2 earnings file, and in step with the facts, GTA V keeps promoting love hotcakes, maintaining its place because the 2d handiest-promoting online game in history, fully within the wait on of Minecraft. Other franchises mentioned within the file consist of Crimson Ineffective, NBA 2K, Borderlands, and extra, alongside main substances about future games.
It sounds as if GTA V remains the 2d handiest-promoting online game in history, with over 150 million copies sold, and about 50 million unnerved from the first home currently held by Minecraft. GTA V sales bear enormously pushed the GTA franchise to irascible the 350 million sales ticket, which now occupies the sixth home within the record of handiest-promoting online game franchises.
No subject these extensive numbers, GTA V is unruffled removed from over. Scheduled to liberate for PS5 and Xbox Series consoles on November 11, 2021, Opt-Two moreover plans to originate GTA Online standalone on the identical day. Or now not it is unclear which platforms will receive the standalone version, but PC will most completely be one amongst them.
The NBA 2K series, regarded because the handiest-promoting “basketball simulation property in step with buck sales and devices within the US,” has accrued over 112 million copies until now, with NBA 2K21 promoting over 11 million devices. The Crimson Ineffective franchise is moreover in trusty shape, promoting over 60 million copies, from which 38 million are for Crimson Ineffective Redemption 2 on my own, making it the “2nd handiest-promoting title within the US in past 3 years in step with buck sales.”
The Borderlands series has sold over 71 million devices. An proper fragment of that came from Borderlands 3, 2K’s fastest-promoting title, with over 13 million devices sold to this level. On the opposite hand, an even bigger fragment came from Borderlands 2, 2K’s prime-promoting title, which sold over 25 million copies.
Opt-Two moreover confirmed Borderlands scoot-off Minute Tina’s Wonderlands is quandary to liberate in early 2022.
Even when Bioshock hasn’t bought a fresh entry in some time, it unruffled reveals some success, with over 38 million devices sold. The Sid Meier’s Civilization series changed into moreover level to within the file, featuring a total of 58 million copies sold, alongside Kerbal House Program with five million devices and The Outer Worlds with over four million devices.
At some level of the earnings name, Opt-Two moreover discussed some of its future plans. The firm plans to liberate 62 games by the stay of the 2024 fiscal year (March 2024 to March 2025), from which 21 are deliberate to liberate within the fiscal year of 2022 and the final 41 at some level of the next lessons.
Opt-Two is working to liberate Olli Olli World this coming winter, and drawl a fresh franchise between now and March 2022. The fresh franchise will be developed by 2K, but nothing else is smartly-known about it. Rumors point out it goes to also be a Shock XCOM game, which changed into expected to be proven at some level of E3, but there is now not any professional confirmation on that yet.
