If all goes as Sterne Agee’s analyst Arvind Bhatia has predicted, Grand Theft Auto V might trade off a whopping 14 million copies post launch. Bhatia recently issued a note to investors pointing out that he expects Rockstar Games’ massive title to sell more at launch than GTA IV managed to sell in one entire year.
The game is yet to receive an official release date, but it is predicted to debut in the first three months of 2013. And GameSpot reports that if more numbers are to be considered, the title will make publisher, Take-Two Interactive, richer by 700 million US dollars, according to the analyst.
The brokerage firm has already mentioned that it expects over 1 billion USD worth of revenue coming from Rockstar Games’ products in this fiscal year. And with Max Payne 3 being the only other title from the developer this year, it is highly possible that Take-Two Interactive will try to launch GTA V before March 31, 2013, when this fiscal year ends.
The previous iteration of this much loved GTA series of games was GTA IV which was launched for the PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2008, and was later ported to PC. Even prior to its PC release, this title had managed to sell 10 million copies, with 2.85 million of them having been sold within the first five days of its launch.
Grand Theft Auto V still remains without a release date. But if analyst Arvind Bhatia is to be believed, it should come out sometime within the first three months of 2013 to much hype and revelry.