Gaming companies are starting to report their financial results for the quarter ended June 30. Unsurprisingly, isolation amid the world’s ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the interests of many people with regard to video games – they have begun to spend more time on them, spend much more money on them, and do so, as a rule, using digital format… This development of the situation definitely benefited many publishers, among which there was Take-Two Interactive (parent company 2K Games, Private Division and Rockstar games). As part of the report for the first fiscal quarter of 2023, the company reported good sales results.
Net revenue rose 54% to $ 831.3 million, a record for the company in the first quarter. Net income was $ 90.4 million.
The list of the most successful projects is as follows:
- Gta v – 135 million copies (+5 million per quarter);
- Red dead redemption 2 – 32 million copies (+1 million per quarter);
- NBA 2K20 – 14 million copies (+2 million per quarter);
- Borderlands 3 – 10.5 million copies (+0.5 million for the quarter);
- The outer worlds – 2.8 million copies (+0.3 million in the quarter).
Take Two sales update
Grand Theft Auto V – 135 million units
Red Dead Redemption 2 – 32 million units
NBA 2K20 – 14 million units
Borderlands 3 – 10.5 million units
The Outer Worlds – 2.8 million units pic.twitter.com/FQOwgv8kcm
– Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) August 3, 2023
Two main drivers of success Take-Two Interactive became a popular basketball simulator NBA 2K20 and crime thriller Gta v… Sales of the latter have grown significantly since the giveaway of the game on the Epic Games Store earlier in the quarter. According to the CEO Strauss Zelnik, such a generous promotion allowed the company “further expand the audience of the project”…
More specifically, GTA V sales in the first quarter of the current fiscal year outperformed any other first quarter after the game was released in 2013.
In the six weeks since its free distribution on EGS, the action movie has sold more circulation than in the same period of time during any of the previous years.…
Western companies also made a significant contribution to the overall positive result of the company. Red dead redemption 2 and its online component Red dead online… A little more modest were the successes Borderlands 3 and The outer worlds…
The downward trend in revenue from sales of physical copies continues. At the end of the quarter, 92% of sales fell on digital versions…
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