Video game developer Rockstar Games announced last week that its latest game, Red Dead Redemption 2, set a single weekend sales record for an entertainment product: in its first three days on the market it grossed more. of 725 million dollars worldwide, approaching the box office of its most famous and successful video game, Grand Theft Auto V, which in three days recorded sales of 1 billion dollars. Sony Interactive Entertainment also confirmed that Red Dead Redemption 2 set the record in its online store for the number of orders, the highest sales on launch day and then the next two.
Red Dead Redemption 2 goes on sale worldwide on Friday, October 26th. It was one of the most anticipated video games of recent years, having been announced some time ago as the new main title of Rockstar, the company that best developed open world games, those in which you move in the first or third person. in a universe where you can do more or less everything (and always better). It is set in the Old West at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is probably one of the most realistic video games ever, the development of which took seven years of work. It is available for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, while it has not yet been announced for PC release.
