Guiness World Records have now officially recognized the amazing sales success for Grand Theft Auto V.
Grand Theft Auto V managed to earn seven different world records. All of the records recognize the amazing sales figures the game earned when it came out on September 17th, 2013. The game sold 11.21 million copies in just 24 hours earning $815.7 million.
Guinness World Records editor-in-chief Craig Glenday responded:
GTA totally deserves to be recognised as an icon of modern British culture, and we’re thrilled to be able to feature the game in the record books. Gaming is no longer a niche hobby, as GTA V has proved, and how exciting that it’s taken on the might of Hollywood and won! I’m also doubly proud as a Dundonian to welcome this home-grown series back into the Guinness World Records book.
Check out all of the records Grand Theft Auto V earned:
-Best-selling action-adventure videogame in 24 hours
-Best-selling videogame in 24 hours
-Fastest entertainment property to gross $1 billion
-Fastest videogame to gross $1 billion
-Highest grossing videogame in 24 hours
-Highest revenue generated by an entertainment product in 24 hours
-Most viewed trailer for an action-adventure videogame