[STEAM] Red Dead Redemption 2 Overtakes Wii Sports in Best-Selling Games of All Time List

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All eyes are on

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, but

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continues its remarkable success, selling more copies in the last year than in any 12-month ******* since its launch year back in 2018.

Rockstar Games’ masterpiece has now sold an incredible 85 million copies to date (up to March 2026), and while that’s just over a third of the eye-watering 230 million copies GTA 5 has sold, it’s enough to make Red Dead Redemption 2 one of the best-selling games of all time. Indeed, it’s now above Wii Sports as the third best-selling game ever released.

Red Dead Online has always lagged behind its counterpart, GTA Online, not just in terms of updates but revenue, leading some fans to wonder what might have been had Rockstar invested just as heavily in the multiplayer portion of Red Dead Redemption 2. And there is often talk of Red Dead Redemption 3, which feels like an inevitability. Late last year,

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And in 2023, Roger Clark, who played Arthur Morgan, the protagonist of Red Dead Redemption 2,

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but qualified that statement by saying he had no idea when that would be.

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, revealing the character he’d love to play in Red Dead Redemption 3 should it ever happen.

For now, Rockstar’s attention is squarely on GTA 6, but maybe once it’s over the launch and whatever’s next for GTA Online is out the door, it can revisit its iconic Wild West franchise.

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on

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