Current Events > Red Dead Redemption 2 = largest 1st weekend in entertainment history with $725M

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https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/red-dead-redemption-2-opening-weekend-1203014421/

Red Dead Redemption 2 broke records in its first three days on sale, pulling in more than $725 million in worldwide retail sales and achieving the biggest opening weekend in the history of entertainment, developer Rockstar Games announced.

That tops the highest-grossing movie in history, Avengers: Infinity Wars, which earned more than $640 million during its opening weekend earlier this year. But Red Dead Redemption 2 still isnt the highest grossing entertainment launch of all time. That honor also goes to Rockstar Games for Grand Theft Auto V, which earned more than $1 billion in sell-through in its first three days. Because Grand Theft Auto V launched on a Tuesday, it left the door open for Red Dead Redemption 2s which launched on a Friday record-setting weekend.

Rockstar also reports that according to Sony Interactive Entertainment, Red Dead Redemption 2 set records for highest ever pre-orders, highest day one sales and highest sales for the first three days in market on the PlayStation Network.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is currently the highest critically reviewed game on the PlayStation 4, with an average score of 97 on Metacritic, and the top game on Xbox One, also with an average score of 97 on Metacritic.

In Varietys review of the game we wrote that it was Rockstar Games best creation to date and that the game makes an incredible first impression.

It is one of the most visually stunning environments ever executed in a video game, and thats not a statement spoken with hyperbole. Its a technical tour de force, establishing its bona fides as its characters drive new obvious paths through snow and mud, as light filters through an atmosphere that effectively depicts the enormous scale of its environments. Its characters are incredibly detailed and animated, painstakingly executed in a way that brings to mind the big-budget console exclusives companies like Sony and Microsoft use to sell their own hardware. You can see the muscles work under the velvet-y skin of a horse.

The game follows Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang as they rob, steal and fight their way across the rugged heartland of America in order to survive. Following a botched robbery in the western town of Blackwater, the gang is forced to flee and, with federal agents and the best bounty hunters in the nation massing on their heels, deepening internal divisions threaten to tear the gang apart, leaving Arthur to make a choice between his own ideals and loyalty to the gang who raised him.
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Good.
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Deserves it. You can tell they put an insane amount of work into it.
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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Deserves it. You can tell they put an insane amount of work into it.

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$60 is more than $9.

How many copies is that?

Bevause its not a straight up 60$ per sale for Rockstar. Some of the price is retailer markup as stores dont just effectively give the game out for free.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

$60 is more than $9.

200 hours is more than 2 hours.
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Oh cool so they have literally no reason to un-fuck the game
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Money Makin'
Money, Money Makin'
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butthole666 posted...

Oh cool so they have literally no reason to un-fuck the game

they don't need to, so that's good
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I know it's still big numbers regardless, but I hate when reports like this are in dollar amounts. The prices of the products aren't equal. It's like when the GameCube came out and they had a campaign about how it made more money than a Harry Potter movie. No shit when your product is 200 bucks compared to like 10.
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pikachupwnage posted...

How many copies is that?

Bevause its not a straight up 60$ per sale for Rockstar. Some of the price is retailer markup as stores dont just effectively give the game out for free.

pulling in more than $725 million in worldwide retail sales

so... around twelve million copies, ignoring any "Collectors Edition" and assuming the price the the rough equivalent of $60 worldwide.

ledbowman posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

$60 is more than $9.

200 hours is more than 2 hours.

If you've put in 200 hours already, that's pretty impressive. Now go take a nap.

Scorsese2002 posted...

Avengers: Infinity Wars

god damn even official journalists can't get the fucking name right.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

$60 is more than $9.

where can you see a movie for 9 bucks opening weekend? It's 14 here smdh.
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yeah it got my pre-order one day before release. worth it. i like the detail. only downside is no PC release.
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eggcorn posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

$60 is more than $9.

where can you see a movie for 9 bucks opening weekend? It's 14 here smdh.

There's a stupid cheap theater that I go to sometimes where it's $6 early in the day.
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lNFINITY FLOP
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ITT: gamers think publishers get the whole $60 from the sale.
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Jiggy101011 posted...

ITT: gamers think publishers get the whole $60 from the sale.

Nobody thinks that. Do you think movie production companies get all the money from the ticket sales? Of course not.

JE19426 posted...

Jiggy101011 posted...

ITT: gamers think publishers get the whole $60 from the sale.

Nobody thinks that. Do you think movie production companies get all the money from the ticket sales? Of course not.

I take it you ignored post #12
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Impressive, well done!

Jiggy101011 posted...

JE19426 posted...

Jiggy101011 posted...

ITT: gamers think publishers get the whole $60 from the sale.

Nobody thinks that. Do you think movie production companies get all the money from the ticket sales? Of course not.

I take it you ignored post #12

He didn't say that the publishers made that much, he's saying that 725 million divided by 60 is 12 million.
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Jiggy101011 posted...

I take it you ignored post #12

No, I didn't.

GATTJT posted...

He didn't say that the publishers made that much, he's saying that 725 million divided by 60 is 12 million.

"World wide retail sales" heavily implies "gross".

https://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/where-the-60-for-new-games-goes/
Rockstar is getting roughly $27 per boxed copy ($42 or so from PSN/XBL) after all the markups along the way, and has to cover the production costs out of that.

Or, if idiots buying GTA5 sharkcards already bankrolled the whole thing, that's somewhere around $325,000,000 going into Rockstar's accounts this weekend.

Why are people hung up on Rockstar's cut in this topic?

The story is about the total sales, that's all it is.

God damn fucking pedantic CE.
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spanky1 posted...

Why are people hung up on Rockstar's cut in this topic?

The story is about the total sales, that's all it is.

God damn fucking pedantic CE.

I think some people are upset that this supposedly terrible that game they can't stop playing is doing well so they start spinning.
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ledbowman posted...

I think some people are upset that this supposedly terrible that game they can't stop playing is doing well so they start spinning.

lmao true
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Holy fuck knuckles
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I don't give a shit. I bought the game and I like it. Why is everyone so fucking fascinated with "sallllessss figures". Get the fuckin game or don't.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

$60 is more than $9.

Pretty much.
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