The Rockstar title signs its best month last December, while Red Dead Redemption 2 doubles its revenue after also launching on Steam.
Grand Theft Auto V is living one of its best moments of recent times despite having been in the market for more than six years. The Rockstar phenomenon, with more than 115 million units sold worldwide, signed its best month of income in December 2019 since December 2017. Red Dead Redemption 2, meanwhile, has also experienced a significant boost .
Rockstar has two pillars, not one. The first one, GTA 5, invoiced this past December – adding console and PC via direct sales and microtransactions in GTA Online – more than 84.7 million dollars; In other words, 2.8 million dollars a day during that period. According to SuperData, which signs the information, the launch of Diamond Casino Heist has been the trigger that, along with Diamond Casino and Resort, the video game's interest has skyrocketed as it feels like something new, something different.
Red Dead Redemption 2
Activision, EA and Rockstar, big winners of December.
Worrying was the course of Red Dead Redemption 2, which accumulated a first half of 2019 chaining months with worse billing figures every time. The launch of the game in Epic Games Store and Rockstar Games was not enough to reach the expected turnover, which remained at $ 406,000 in November. However, the arrival of the game on the leading digital video game portal for PC, Steam, has allowed the company's latest in the Wild West to become $ 1,000,000 in December alone. More active players, more revenue.
However, GTA 5 has established itself in the fourth videogame position with the highest turnover in the entire month of December on consoles; Red Dead Redemption 2 did the same in fifth place on PC.
Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled has offered six free circuits in six months, without Season Pass: its micropayments are aesthetic.
Notably, Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled within the Top-10 based on free updates with new circuits and content, a whole semester of gifts for buyers, offset by aesthetic micropayments that do not affect the gameplay. Green shoots in an Activision that continues to see its most important IP, Call of Duty, with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, bite the gold medal for another month. The pair of FIFA 20 and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order has been for EA its great combo of 2019 and, surely, also the first measures of 2020.