Red Dead Redemption 2 Now the Fourth Best-Selling Video Game of All Time

Amid confirmation that GTA 6 truly has been delayed again, we person connection that Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2 has go the 4th best-selling crippled of each time.

As elaborate successful steadfast Take-Two's capitalist telephone yesterday (November 6), the sequel has sold implicit 79 cardinal units — making it the "best-selling rubric of the past 7 years successful the U.S. based connected dollar sales" — and taking income of the full bid to 106 million.

To springiness that immoderate context, deliberation of each the hugely palmy games that person been released successful the past 7 years — Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Hogwarts Legacy, Elden Ring, to sanction but a fewer — arsenic good arsenic everything that's released implicit the past fewer decades. Apart from Minecraft, GTA 5, and Wii Sports, which person sold 350 million, 220 million, and 82.9 cardinal copies, respectively, Red Dead Redemption 2 has outsold everything.

With 79 cardinal sales, that puts Red Dead 2 conscionable up of the anterior fourth-place Mario Kart 8's estimated 78.02 cardinal sales, arsenic good arsenic PUBG (75 million), The Oregon Trail (65 million), Terraria (64 million), The Witcher 3 (60 million), and the archetypal 1985 Super Mario Bros. (58 million).

You'd deliberation then, that Red Dead Redemption 3 is simply a dormant cert. But Rockstar has yet to denote a sequel. Earlier this week, Rockstar Games co-founder and erstwhile pb writer Dan Houser said he’d consciousness much bittersweet to larn Red Dead Redemption 3 was successful improvement without him than helium feels astir GTA 6, but admits the crippled "will astir apt happen." As pb writer, Houser wrote astir each of Rockstar’s games, but having near the institution implicit 5 years ago, Houser precocious confirmed to IGN that GTA 6 won’t person a communicative oregon a quality acceptable helium developed, but expects the crippled to beryllium large nonetheless.

“Of course, letting spell of thing I worked connected successful 1 mode oregon different for similar 20-odd years, and wrote connected them for the past 10 oregon 11 that came out, wrote each of them, oregon you know, pb writer connected each of them, immoderate it was… letting spell of that is simply a large change. And bittersweet successful a way,” Houser said.

“Because each of the [Grand Theft Auto] games was a benignant of standalone communicative it’s not rather the aforesaid as… I deliberation astir apt it would beryllium successful immoderate ways sadder if idiosyncratic continued connected Red Dead, due to the fact that it was a cohesive two-game arc. That mightiness beryllium much bittersweet to perceive idiosyncratic moving connected that. But again, that volition astir apt hap too. I don't ain the IP. That was portion of the deal. It's a privilege to enactment connected stuff, but you don't needfully ain it.”

In 2023, Roger Clark, who played Arthur Morgan, the main playable protagonist of Red Dead Redemption 2, said helium was “certain” fans volition spot Red Dead Redemption 3 “one day,” but qualified that connection by saying helium had nary thought erstwhile that would be. Clark besides ruled retired the instrumentality of Arthur Morgan successful the game, should it travel to be. If you’ve played Red Dead Redemption 2, this mightiness look similar stating the obvious, but there’s ever the accidental Rockstar whitethorn see different prequel of immoderate kind.

“I’m definite we volition spot Red Redemption 3 1 day,” Clark said. “When that volition beryllium — I person perfectly nary idea. Don’t number connected Arthur’s engagement either. His communicative has been told, I feel.”

In a consequent interrogation with IGN, Clark expanded connected his thoughts: “Yeah, that got truly picked up! I would person thought that was evident though. Wouldn’t you? And it’s not similar I person immoderate insider accusation whatsoever, but of people there’s going to beryllium different Red Dead. It sold implicit 60 cardinal copies!”

He continued: “Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of Take-Two said it himself. He said GTA and Red Dead are salient franchises for Rockstar Games and that they volition beryllium returning to them successful the future. So there’s nary uncertainty determination volition beryllium different Red Dead. But if Arthur Morgan volition beryllium involved? I highly uncertainty it, to beryllium honest. And I deliberation it’s going to beryllium rather immoderate clip earlier we adjacent spot a snifter of thing caller Red Dead related. I person nary thought however it would cookware out, but I wouldn’t stake connected Arthur being a portion of it.”

Today, Red Dead Redemption 2 is wide considered to beryllium 1 of the champion video games of each time. We thought it was a masterpiece, too, with IGN's reappraisal returning a 10/10. "Red Dead Redemption 2 is simply a crippled of uncommon quality; a meticulously polished open-world ode to the outlaw era," we wrote.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.