Red Dead Redemption surpasses 5 million units shipped

by James Ransom-Wiley on Jun 8th 2010 5:59PM

More than 5 million copies of Red Dead Redemption have been shrink-wrapped and shipped to retailers across North America and Europe since the game's May 18 release -- and, presumably, folks are buying 'em. Publisher Take-Two announced the mailing milestone today, amidst its quarterly earnings, celebrating the commercial and critical success of Rockstar's little Western that could.

Just five months ago Red Dead Redemption appeared doomed. At that time, an anonymous Rockstar source told us, "It will take 4 million sales at full price to recoup the development costs of Red Dead. The good news is they are not expecting to make money with Red Dead Redemption." The accuracy of that estimate notwithstanding, today's shipment announcement suggests that Take-Two and Rockstar now expect to enjoy strong, continued sales of Red Dead.

Of course, let's not get too celebratory over a measly 5 million shipped. As if to put the upstart Western in its place, Take-Two also revealed today Grand Theft Auto IV's lifetime global numbers: 17 million sold.

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Tags: Grand-Theft-Auto-IV, GTAIV, microsoft, playstation, ps3, Red-Dead-Redemption, Rockstar, Rockstar-Games, Rockstar-San-Diego, sales, Take-Two, Take-Two-Interactive, xbox, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (75)

If you don't have this, go buy it now.

Or pry it from a friends dead cold hands...

@Plat

But... but that's one less person in my posse. :(

Blah, I think I might buckle this evening, I wonder if Gamestop still has the double trade-in thing going. At the start of episode 5 of Alan Wake, still have Uncharted 2 which I haven't touch, but this is calling my name.

Few of my friends were doing multiplayer last night, said it was real fun.

50% extra trade in bonus at GS right now. Your friends are correct. Both the single player and multiplayer are superb!

On the opposite end of the spectrum, I finally got so fed up with this game last night that I'm shelving it for good. There's no one reason, just tons of little things that finally got to me. It's not a bad game, but it's far from perfect.

!

Get a rope

It's a damn fun game - both sp and mp are enjoyable. Buy it.

Agreed. I thought this was just going to be another GTA where I skip the cut scenes, but I actually became interested in the story. I implore those that are currently Red Deadless to correct the error in their ways immediatlly!

@ Dr.

You can't complain about getting fed up with games when you have an E.T. from the Atari 2600 as your avatar.

I love this game. There's nothing cooler than riding a horse in the open west and shooting coyotes. Well, except the rest of the stuff you can do in the game.

I prefer riding in the snow covered woods and killing grizzlies myself ;)

It's easily my favorite game of the year so far.

Rockstar definitely deserves this success.

Love this game, I got caught in a thunderstorm riding across the desert last night.

It was freaking epic.

Yeah! this is my GOTY so far! :) I love hunting stuffs and finding treasures and skinning stuff, and sometimes going crazy in town until i have a high bounty.

a random cougar backraped me the other night this game is a must buy

That reminds me, I need to start a new save file and be a complete villain this time around. The Slaughter of the Innocents is calling to me...

move over gta, theres a new sheriff in town! :-D

Amazing game that could only be topped by MG2 or Halo Reach for GOTY, damn fanboys

Or StarCraft, Zelda, Mass Effect 2, or Other M, Fable 3, or Last Guardian

This year is going to be insanely scattershot come GotY time.

Beat Hazard is GOTY if you ask me.

Snoopy Flying Ace, you guys.

(Also, what's MG2? I'm drawing a blank)

Guitaroo Man 2 and he typo'd it?

1) Beat Hazard is amazing
2) Why did I read Guitaroo Man 2? DON'T TEASE ME!

If Zelda is released this year, I'll eat my hat.

fallout new vegas, just like fallout 3

uh no, Fallout New Vegas is just a glorified Fallout 3 mod. seriously, i was so friggen pumped for New Vegas at one point but those screenshots... they even reuse player/npc outfits!

the people's faces are all the same generic faces from F3! all the girls look like Moira!

Taking Bethesda's SDK (granted its very well made and easy-ish to use) and making a new Fallout game with it using the SAME resources from Fallout 3 is just lazy.

i'm bummed to say i'll be passing on this one.

i am sorry but what the hell is mg2?

GOTY

Only 5 million units? This game is twice as good as GTA.

Rather have more of this genre style than GTA IV's theme... but it seems like we live in a world where we can have both. Hope the series keeps going (and continues to increase its story-telling).

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3prslRrQ01qazb99o1_500.jpg

Seriously?

i should have known on one on joystiq would get the joke -_-

Seemed more trolling that joking.

*Than

i guess it's more of a tumblr/hipster thing but this can explain

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hipster-kitty

That helps a lot in explanation.

Why was he downvoted? I thought it was pretty funny. I mean I hate the whole internet, shut-in cat humor, but it made me chuckle.

dang that was great, LOL nice avatar

Yeah, not many of the people who come here are too bright.

Revolver sucked ass. I couldn't stand more than 20 minutes of it.

Some great touches. One mini-mission tasked me with convincing a man's wife to return to him. On a whim, I attempted to lassoo and hogtie her, then carry her back to him. Mission complete. BOOM.

I just put a gun in her face... lol
It's an international language so I'm told.

Great game. However, the game has far too many glitches for a 95+ score. I can definitely see a 90 score, which is what I would give it. But even though they're funny, we shouldn't overlook flaws like an abundance of glitches. I think many 'critics' are far too easy on Rockstar. I've even been easy on them int he past since they've always been one of my favorite developers. Certainly a worthy contender for GOTY already, but the flaws should be taken into account just like they are in lesser hyped titles, that's all.

Not a bash on the game, just a fair assessment and an urge for more accountability when it comes to game reviewers.

Honestly I haven't experienced much in glitches. The ones I have were hilarious one timers. There is some texture clipping but it's not insanely noticeable.

Played the entire game without seeing any glitches or bugs. What problems have you come across?

Well, you both are very lucky.

Over 3,000 videos of glitches:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=red+dead+redemption+glitches&aq=f

I've heard plenty of people say that those glitches are what makes the game even more entertaining.

Even if they make the game more entertaining, a game should be as glitch-free as possible.

They should not be overlooked because they're 'teh funny'.

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