Red Dead Redemption 2 Takes An Insanely Good Launch!

General news News 10/31/2018

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In the entertainment industry, a similar launch happens rarely.

Rockstar announced that Red Dead Redemption 2 that launched on October 26 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, got 725 million dollars over the launch weekend, and only one thing had a better start than this game. That would be another Rockstar game, namely Grand Theft Auto V, which grossed a billion dollars in the three days following its release in 2013.

With this performance, Red Dead Redemption 2 also had the biggest opening weekend in retail sell-through across all entertainment releases, the biggest entertainment launch of 2018, plus it also was the most pre-ordered full game ever on PlayStation Network, and it also had the biggest day-one, and the biggest first three days full game sales ever on the PlayStation Network.

725 million dollars! If we divide it by 60, we’ll get roughly twelve million sold copies on average. It’s unlikely to have sold that well, but we can expect Red Dead Redemption 2 to have 9-10 million copies sold over three days…

Source: Gematsu

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