GTA 5 Awarded 7 Guinness World Records

Posted on November 27, 2013 at 5:30 am

It was almost a on the grounds that Grand Theft Auto V would break some variety of record. Its predecessor, Grand Theft Auto IV, broke sales records when it was released back in 2008 and the hype for GTA V this year was quite possibly even higher than for that classic.

Sure enough, sales of GTA V took off on day one with greater than $800 million in revenue. That figure had easily hit $1 billion by the weekend. Those amazing sales numbers have now earned GTA V a spot within the Guinness World Record book – six times over.

The Guinness World Records organization this week awarded GTA V six different world records, them all involving the rate with which the sport sold. A seventh record was also awarded to the sport in line with its official trailer, which Guinness World Records says is the “most viewed” trailer for an action-adventure game. Listed below are the records, a number of which put GTA V above even movies an music:

  • 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

“GTA totally deserves to be recognized as an icon of contemporary British culture, and we’re thrilled with the intention to feature the sport within the record books,” said Craig Glenday, editor-in-chief of Guinness World Records. “Gaming is not any longer a gap hobby, as GTA 5 has proved, and the way exciting that it’s taken at 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.”

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