Video Games

Grand Theft Auto V

Most Successful Entertainment Launches

The highest grossing entertainment product ever didn’t start out that way, but it did get off to an excellent start, having sold 11.21 million copies in its first 24 hours on the market, for which it still retains the record of largest video game launch day ever. The years since its original release in 2013 have seen the multiplayer portion of the game, GTA Online, expanded upon greatly with everything from new vehicles and weapons to crazy game modes like Transform Races, which has your vehicle transform so races can combine flying, driving, and boating.

Rockstar’s game has broken a myriad of records including being the fastest entertainment product to gross $1 billion and generating the most revenue in 24 hours of any entertainment product ever.

Angry Birds Space

This version of Angry Birds picked up steam quickly, with 10 million devices downloading the game in just three days. It went on to be downloaded 50 million times in just 35 days, beating out the prior record holder for mobile game that that many downloads, Draw Something, which took 50 days to reach that many downloads.

It helps, of course, that Angry Birds Space is free-to-play and available on Android, iOS, PC, and Mac, but its record setting release is impressive nonetheless.