GTA 5 Has Sold-In 85 Million Copies

Grand Theft Auto V has shipped 85 million copies, Take-Two announced today.

According to the publisher, citing The NPD Group during its latest earnings report, Grand Theft Auto V is now the U.S.'s best-selling video game ever in terms of units sold and revenue. NPD says this is based on physical and digital sales across all platforms.

Sold-in means copies sold to stores and not sold-through, which are copies bought by customers.

Take-Two last reported Grand Theft Auto V sold-in 75 million copies, meaning it has shipped an additional 10 million units since February. Despite initially being released over four years ago, Rockstar's hit open-world game continues to appear on NPD's monthly list of best-selling games in the US, most recently charting seventh in September.

According to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, GTA V has been on 42 out of 50 NPD monthly Top 10 charts, the most appearances of any single game on the NPD's rankings.

For more, check out IGN's recent interview with Rockstar Director of Design Imran Sarwar, during which he discussed how the developer turned GTA Online from a near failure to a massive success. You can also read why Rockstar made the decision not to release any single-player DLC for Grand Theft Auto V.

Jordan is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @jdsirani.