{"id":93432,"date":"2019-05-13T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/342556"},"modified":"2019-05-13T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T22:48:00","slug":"take-two-sees-record-net-bookings-thanks-to-flagship-franchises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/13\/take-two-sees-record-net-bookings-thanks-to-flagship-franchises\/","title":{"rendered":"Take-Two sees record net bookings thanks to flagship franchises"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take-Two Interactive has closed out its 2018-2019 fiscal year<\/a> with record net bookings, more than half of which came from digital goods.<\/p>\n

Full-year net bookings ((the “net amount of products and services sold digitally or physically sold in during the period”) increased 47 percent year-over-year, coming in at $2.929 billion for the 12 month period ending March 31, 2019. Roughly 39 percent of the year\u2019s net bookings came from recurrent consumer spending (or virtual currency, add-on content and in-game purchases) as well.<\/p>\n

Digital continues to make up a larger chunk of overall bookings thanks to NBA 2k<\/em>, Grand Theft Auto<\/em>, Red Dead Redemption<\/em>, and other key Take-Two franchises. This past year saw $1.8 billion in net bookings from digital, a 33 percent increase from the year prior and 62 percent of Take-Two\u2019s overall net bookings.<\/p>\n

During its earnings call, Take-Two leadership also called out the ongoing strength of Take-Two subsidiary Rockstar Games’ portfolio, noting that 90 million players engaged with Rockstar titles in the 2018-2019 fiscal year and that the November 2018 release Red Dead Online<\/em> is already performing better than Grand Theft Auto Online<\/em> was at the same point in its own lifetime.<\/p>\n

For just the fourth quarter, the company saw $488.4 million in net bookings, 62 percent of which came from recurrent consumer spending. Back catalog titles specifically contributed $254.5 million to the quarter\u2019s net bookings totals, while digital accounted for $419 million. The company says its best-performing games in terms of digital net bookings for Q4 were NBA 2K19<\/em>, Grand Theft Auto Online <\/em>and Grand Theft Auto V<\/em>, Red Dead Redemption 2<\/em> and Red Dead Online<\/em>, Sid Meier\u2019s Civilization VI<\/em>, Dragon City <\/em>and Monster Legends<\/em>, and WWE SuperCard<\/em> and WWE 2K19<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Take-Two Interactive has closed out its 2018-2019 fiscal year with record net bookings, more than half of which came from digital goods. Full-year net bookings ((the “net amount of products and services sold digitally or physically sold in during the period”) increased 47 percent year-over-year, coming in at $2.929 billion for the 12 month period ending […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}