{"id":365321,"date":"2025-11-08T20:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/365321\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T20:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:49:09","slug":"red-dead-redemption-2-has-sold-more-copies-than-any-other-game-in-the-last-7-years-and-is-the-fourth-biggest-selling-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/365321\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Dead Redemption 2 has sold more copies than any other game in the last 7 years, and is the fourth-biggest-selling of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red Dead Redemption 2<\/a> is now the fourth-biggest-selling game of all time, having sold 79 million copies since it debuted in 2018.<\/p>\n

That’s according to publisher Take-Two, although you’d be forgiven for missing the news given the milestone was announced at the same time we learned GTA 6 had been delayed to 26th November, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Squirrelled away within its investor’s report<\/a>, Take-Two revealed that the sequel’s success take sales for the whole franchise to 106 million.<\/p>\n

That means Red Dead Redemption 2 has sold more copies than any other game released in the last seven years – including Elden Ring<\/a>, Monster Hunter: World<\/a>, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare – and surpassed the sales of blockbuster games like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt<\/a>, The Sims, and PUBG<\/a> (although admittedly, the latter eventually went free-to-play in 2022<\/a>).<\/p>\n

It also eclipsed the previous holder of the fourth-biggest game in the world title, Mario Kart 8.<\/p>\n

In fact, only Minecraft, GTA 5, and Wii Sports have sold more, with sales of 350 million, 220 million, and 82.9 million, respectively.<\/p>\n

Back in July, quite out of the blue, Rockstar released an update for Red Dead Online, boasting four new adventures<\/a>, Strange Tales of The Plague, Strange Tales of Modern Science, Strange Tales of The Bayou and Strange Tales of The Wilderness. It came as a surprise as back in 2022, Rockstar told fans not to expect any further major updates for Red Dead Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We thought Red Dead Redemption 2 was great, awarding it a Recommended badge<\/a>, calling it “an astounding open world unlikely to be rivalled until well into the next gen, saddled by a throughline from the last.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Dead Redemption 2 is now the fourth-biggest-selling game of all time, having sold 79 million copies since…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":365322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-365321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115516051817827124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}