{"id":64365,"date":"2014-05-14T09:15:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T07:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=64365"},"modified":"2014-05-14T09:17:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T07:17:11","slug":"take-two-makes-bank-as-gta-5-continues-to-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/64365-take-two-makes-bank-as-gta-5-continues-to-sell","title":{"rendered":"Take-Two makes bank as GTA 5 continues to sell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take-Two Interactive &#8211; owners of 2K Games and Rockstar Games &#8211; is reaping the sweet rewards of Grand Theft Auto 5&#8217;s success, banking over $2.4 billion (R24.7 billion) in revenue in its 2014 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>GTA 5 has largely contributed to Take-Two&#8217;s healthy bank balance, selling 33 million units to date and exceeding $1 billion (R10.3 billion) in sales.<\/p>\n<p>The company also divulged sales figures for its other popular games as part of its year end financial results.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Borderlands &#8211; 9 million units<\/li>\n<li>Civilization V &#8211; 5 million units<\/li>\n<li>BioShock Infinite &#8211; 6 million units<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take-Two said its sport games franchise was also performing well, and the upcoming NBA 2K15 (due out on October 7 2014) and WWE 2K15 (due out in 2015) would continue that trend.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ajy4eVDw2VQ?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2014\/05\/13\/grand-theft-auto-helped-take-two-rake-in-the-cash\/\" target=\"_blank\">VG24\/7<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64301-diablo-3-ultimate-evil-edition-release-date-revealed.html\">Diablo 3: Ultimate Evil Edition release date revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64267-dota-2-international-prize-money-reaches-new-highs.html\">Dota 2 International prize money reaches new highs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64107-which-is-the-best-selling-next-gen-game.html\">Which is the best selling next-gen game?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video game about stealing money earns over a billions dollars legitimately. Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":64367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[827,31,3309,745,747],"class_list":["post-64365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-2k-games","tag-active","tag-grand-theft-auto-5","tag-rockstar-games","tag-take-two-interactive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64369,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64365\/revisions\/64369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}