GTA Sales History: Every GTA V Sell-In Figure, 2013-2026

Every GTA V and series sell-in figure Take-Two put in an SEC filing from 2013 to Aug 2026, dated, with the filing named and the arithmetic shown.

Every sales number here comes from a Take-Two SEC filing or from Guinness World Records, with no estimates and no tracking sites. Read in order, the filings show one thing clearly: GTA V now accounts for close to half of all Grand Theft Auto units ever sold in.

At a glance

Item	Figure	Source
GTA V launch	Sep 17 2013, PS3 and Xbox 360	Take-Two 10-K, May 14 2014
Units in the first 24 hours	11.21 million	Guinness, Oct 8 2013
Revenue in the first 24 hours	$815.7 million	Guinness, Oct 8 2013
$1 billion reached	after three days, Sep 20 2013	Guinness, Oct 8 2013
Latest GTA V sell-in	over 230 million units	Take-Two 10-Q, Aug 7 2026
Latest series sell-in	over 470 million units	Take-Two 10-Q, Aug 7 2026
Series before GTA V	over 128 million units	Take-Two 10-Q, Jul 31 2013

What is counted, and how

Sell-in, not sell-through. Take-Two reports units "sold-in": copies shipped to retailers plus digital sales, not copies bought by players and never a player count. Guinness's 24-hour figures measure first-day sales.

"Over" means a floor. Take-Two's 10-Q and 10-K filings give GTA V in steps of 5 million, with "over", "more than" or "nearly" in front. Any difference between two such floors is approximate, and this page says so each time.

Where each number lives. Until 2018 the GTA V figure was usually in the quarterly earnings release (8-K, exhibit 99.1). From late 2018 it sits in the business description of each 10-Q and 10-K, next to the series total. Dates are filing dates, not the dates a milestone was crossed. Left out: lifetime figures for older GTA titles (these filings do not give them) and any press figure that disagrees with a filing.

The GTA V sell-in ladder

Every GTA V unit figure we found in Take-Two's SEC filings, in order, with the filing that carried it.

Filing date	Filing	GTA V wording
Oct 29 2013	8-K, Q2 FY2014 results	nearly 29 million
Feb 3 2014	8-K, Q3 FY2014 results	more than 32.5 million
May 13 2014	8-K, Q4 FY2014 results	more than 33 million
Feb 3 2015	8-K, Q3 FY2015 results	more than 45 million on console, including nearly 10 million on PS4 and Xbox One
May 18 2015	8-K, Q4 FY2015 results	nearly 52 million
Jul 28 2015	DEF 14A proxy	more than 53 million
Aug 10 2015	8-K, Q1 FY2016 results	over 54 million
Feb 3 2016	8-K, Q3 FY2016 results	over 60 million
Aug 16 2017	8-K, investor presentation	over 80 million
Nov 7 2017	8-K, Q2 FY2018 results	more than 85 million
Jul 26 2018	DEF 14A proxy	more than 95 million
Aug 2 2018	8-K, Q1 FY2019 results	approaching 100 million
Nov 8 2018	10-Q	over 100 million
May 14 2019	10-K, FY2019	over 105 million
Jul 26 2019	DEF 14A proxy	almost 110 million
Aug 6 2019	10-Q	over 110 million
Nov 8 2019	10-Q	over 115 million
Feb 7 2020	10-Q	over 120 million
May 22 2020	10-K, FY2020	over 125 million
Aug 4 2020	10-Q	over 130 million
Nov 6 2020	10-Q	over 135 million
Feb 9 2021	10-Q	over 140 million
May 19 2021	10-K, FY2021	over 145 million
Aug 3 2021	10-Q	over 150 million
Nov 4 2021	10-Q	over 155 million
Feb 8 2022	10-Q	nearly 160 million
May 17 2022	10-K, FY2022	over 160 million
Aug 9 2022	10-Q	more than 165 million
Nov 8 2022	10-Q	more than 170 million
Feb 7 2023	10-Q	more than 175 million
May 26 2023	10-K, FY2023	over 180 million
Aug 9 2023	10-Q	"over 180 units" (sic)
Nov 9 2023	10-Q	"over 185 units" (sic)
Feb 9 2024	10-Q	"over 190 units" (sic)
May 22 2024	10-K, FY2024	over 195 million
Aug 9 2024	10-Q	over 200 million
Nov 7 2024	10-Q	over 205 million
Feb 7 2025	10-Q	over 210 million
May 20 2025	10-K, FY2025	over 210 million
Aug 7 2025	10-Q	over 215 million
Nov 7 2025	10-Q	over 220 million
Feb 4 2026	10-Q	over 220 million
May 22 2026	10-K, FY2026	over 225 million
Jul 27 2026	DEF 14A proxy	nearly 230 million
Aug 7 2026	10-Q	over 230 million

Two things in this table are worth knowing.

The missing word. The three 10-Qs from Aug 2023 to Feb 2024 say GTA V "has sold-in over 180 units", then 185 and 190, with "million" dropped. The series line in the same filings reads "over 400 units", 410 and 415. The 10-Ks on either side use "million", so we read these as drafting errors, but quote them as filed.
Two figures for one date. The May 22 2024 10-K says over 195 million. The Jul 25 2024 proxy says GTA V had "sold-in approximately 200 million units" as of the end of fiscal 2024. Both hold only if the real figure sat just under 200 million.

How fast the milestones came

Time from launch (Sep 17 2013) to the first filing that reported each figure. The real crossing came earlier.

Milestone	First filing that reported it	Time after launch
29 million	Oct 29 2013	42 days
50 million ("nearly 52")	May 18 2015	1 year, 8 months, 1 day
100 million	Nov 8 2018	5 years, 1 month, 22 days
150 million	Aug 3 2021	7 years, 10 months, 17 days
200 million	Aug 9 2024	10 years, 10 months, 23 days
230 million	Aug 7 2026	12 years, 10 months, 21 days

Arithmetic for the first row: Sep 17 to Sep 30 2013 is 13 days, plus 29 days of October, is 42 days. The first 100 million took about 5.1 years; the next 100 million took about 5.75 more (Nov 8 2018 to Aug 9 2024).

The annual 10-Ks show the pace barely fading. GTA V added about 20 million units in each of the years to May 2020, 2021 and 2023, and about 15 million in each of the years to May 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026 (for example, 225 - 210 = 15 million between the May 2025 and May 2026 10-Ks). A game still adding about 15 million units a year more than a decade after launch is the headline number here.

GTA V's share of the whole series

The business description gives the series total and GTA V in the same sentence. Subtracting one from the other gives everything else the series has sold in. Both are floors, so the result can move by a few million either way, which is why the "everything else" column dips in 2019. The 2015 and 2017 rows come from investor presentations filed as 8-K exhibits.

Filing	Series	GTA V	Everything else (series - V)	GTA V share (V / series)
Aug 18 2015 investor deck	over 220 million	over 54 million	166 million	24.5%
Aug 16 2017 investor deck	over 265 million	over 80 million	185 million	30.2%
Aug 3 2018 10-Q	over 285 million	over 95 million	190 million	33.3%
May 14 2019 10-K	over 290 million	over 105 million	185 million	36.2%
May 22 2020 10-K	over 320 million	over 125 million	195 million	39.1%
May 19 2021 10-K	over 335 million	over 145 million	190 million	43.3%
May 17 2022 10-K	over 375 million	over 160 million	215 million	42.7%
May 26 2023 10-K	over 395 million	over 180 million	215 million	45.6%
May 22 2024 10-K	over 420 million	over 195 million	225 million	46.4%
May 20 2025 10-K	over 445 million	over 210 million	235 million	47.2%
May 22 2026 10-K	over 465 million	over 225 million	240 million	48.4%
Aug 7 2026 10-Q	over 470 million	over 230 million	240 million	48.9%

Worked example for the last row: 470 - 230 = 240 million; 230 / 470 = 0.489, or 48.9%.

Another way to see it: the series stood at over 128 million in the last filing before GTA V (10-Q, Jul 31 2013) and over 470 million on Aug 7 2026. That is about 470 - 128 = 342 million units added since GTA V launched, of which GTA V is about 230 million. The other roughly 342 - 230 = 112 million came from every other GTA product over the same thirteen years. Take-Two does not break that figure down by title.

Two oddities in the series total

The series figure does not always go up. The May 24 2017 10-K says over 260 million, the next 10-Q (Aug 3 2017) over 255 million, and an investor presentation two weeks later (Aug 16 2017) over 265 million. The filings do not show which was the slip. And the jump from over 128 million (10-Q, Jul 31 2013) to over 150 million (10-Q, Oct 30 2013) is about 150 - 128 = 22 million in one quarter, which fits GTA V's "nearly 29 million" only roughly, because both series figures are floors.

Trivia

Take-Two's Oct 29 2013 release said the first 29 million already beat GTA IV's lifetime console sell-in (/library/gta-iv).
Guinness's Oct 8 2013 article says six records in its headline and opening, then lists seven.
Take-Two's 2020 and 2021 proxies cite the NPD Group: GTA V was "the best-selling game of the past decade" in the US, by units and dollar sales.