Grand Theft Auto V becomes the biggest entertainment launch in history, making $1bil in first 3 days.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/09/20/grand-theft-auto-v-crosses-1b-in-sales-biggest-entertainment-launch-in-history/

Grand Theft Auto V has been reported to sell over 16 million copies now, giving a total monetary amount of more than 1 billion dollars. Needless to say this is likely the fastest any entertainment product has ever reached: to put in perspective, The Avengers made $1 billion in 19 days. The previous record holder for greatest entertainment launch, Black Ops 2, didn't get it until 14 days. There's a pretty damn long time between 14 and 3 days.

This 16 million sold count also should completely dispel any rumors of it causing anyone to be violent. Unless everyone who owns the damn thing becomes violent, AKA Fox News' fantasy (owned the game for 3 days now, nothing yet), it will probably simply count as an isolated incident (which, oh wait, it is.)

Honestly I don't see how people are actually MAD at the media for these stunts. What you should be doing is laughing your ass off with the rest of us -- obviously the media's stunts for attention are doing nothing (as seen by the record). And, practically all actually certified psychologists agree that games have literally no correlation with violence (seriously, "FOX News' official psychologist" is a position that's fucking laughable). Speaking of which, go have a laugh with this one here:


http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/09/13/foxs-ablow-links-video-games-and-mass-shootings/195872



Anyway, my own review of GTA V will come later today, though this means probably no posts tomorrow.

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