Red Dead Redemption 2 Gallops at the opening weekend sales record

This should not surprise anyone Red Dead Redemption 2 has released a monster opening weekend, but the numbers released by Rockstar Games are still staggering. Red Dead Redemption 2 reported $ 725 million over the weekend, making it not only the biggest weekend launch of the video game history, but also that of entertainment.

If you want to be technical, Red Dead Redemption 2The first three days arrive at number 2 all the time. What entertainment did better? Another title of Rockstar Games, of course. Grand Theft Auto V sold through $ 1 billion in its first three days, but it launched a Tuesday.

On PlayStation 4, Red Dead Redemption 2 is the most pre-ordered digital game on the platform. He also recorded the sales record for launch day and the last three days of the PlayStation Network's history. The previous sales manager on launch day was Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, a game that has been championing PSN sales for two weeks. To compare, Black Ops 4 reported $ 500 million total on its opening weekend. Data for Xbox One sales was not available.

RDR2 seems about to break the sales figures of the first game, which has achieved lifetime sales of about 15 million copies. We do not know how many individual copies of RDR2 have been sold over the weekend, and it's not a simple math question to discover. If every buyer of the game was buying the standard edition, more than 12 million copies would have been sold within the first three days. Since RDR2 has several editions, including a $ 100 Ultimate Edition, it has certainly sold less than 12 million copies. But the open-world western world is becoming one of the most successful video games of all time.

A sales record, we are almost positive, will not be beaten by RDR2 is GTA VSales for life, which exceeded 100 million copies.

We called Red Dead Redemption 2 "The greatest open world game of all time" in our review. If you've just started this epic adventure, check out our beginner's guide and our guide to cheat codes. With Red Dead Online around the corner, copies will likely continue to steal shelves throughout the holiday season.