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The commercial success of the series reached a speed that surpassed the productions with the highest box office revenues in the cinema industry.

Grand Theft Auto 5, which reached one billion dollars in sales in just three days when it was released in 2013, broke a record in the entertainment industry, surpassing the "Avengers: Endgame" movie, which reached this level in five days.

Take-Two data reveals that this success is the fastest commercial performance to reach the one billion dollar threshold in the entertainment industry to date.

The multiplayer online version, Grand Theft Auto Online, which was launched two weeks after its release, played a decisive role in keeping the game popular for many years.

The platform, where users can manage their own characters in the virtual world, allows robbery and conflict missions to be carried out on a fictional map inspired by the city of Los Angeles.

According to research company Circana data, this online version, which was the third most played game on PlayStation and Xbox consoles in the USA last year, reached more than 15 million monthly active users worldwide by 2026.

Industry publication The Game Business Manager Christopher Dring reported that most of the series' annual revenue of approximately $500 million comes from this online infrastructure and the money spent on virtual items.