One of the best-selling games of all time, Grand Theft Auto V was created with the help of thousands and thousands of people.
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Rockstar Games recently released a new post thanking the large army of developers, specialists and staff who worked on one of the most popular and best-selling games of all time. With nearly 170 million shipments worldwide across three console generations, GTA V is less of a game and more of a mini-franchise in itself; the game has generated at least $7.68 billion since 2013, and a lot more when you include the full extent of GTA Online’s microtransactions.
This great success came with a huge investment of both manpower and funding. Rockstar Games’ thank you post shows just how many people it takes to make something like GTA V. By our count, over 5,000 people worked on the game. We selected all the names and copied them into Excel to see how many columns there were, and Excel recorded 6,820. Headers/job titles make up a large part of these columns, so keep that in mind.
“Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online represent the combined efforts of our global team over many years. We want to recognize and thank everyone who has contributed to these games, from their original release in 2013 to today.”
We can’t imagine how many people are working on Grand Theft Auto 6, but reports indicate that the game will ship with a smaller single-player mode at launch and expand with new campaign content throughout the time via online updates while running GTA Online in parallel.
Reports also say that GTA 6 will take place in Miami and will feature a female protagonist for the first time in the series. There will be two playable characters, one male and one female, in a no-holds-barred modern Bonnie and Clyde story of crime, passion and mayhem.
Neither Rockstar Games nor Take-Two Interactive have announced or confirmed any details about GTA 6 other than saying that yes, the game is “well on track” in terms of development.