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LA Noire may have had a troubled development, eventually resulting in the closure of Team Bondi, but it has sold an impressive 5 million copies since launch.
The figure, mentioned in the publisher’s quarterly financial briefing, means that the open world title was the most successful new IP of last year.
Take-Two’s total revenue for its third fiscal quarter was $236.3m, down from $334.3m in the same period of the previous year. As Take-Two was quick to point out, last year’s figures were riding on the back of the hugely successful Red Dead Redemption.
Along with NBA 2K12, the back catalogue of the Grand Theft Auto series was the biggest contributor to the publisher’s earnings. To the surprise of absolutely no-one, the report made no mention of Grand Theft Auto V’s release date.
