Oh hey. Apparently common sense was right again.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/re...ggest-opening-weekend-of-all-time-725m.77843/
Seems like it outsold Bioshock Infinite's LTD in three days, and even by the relative size of the production it's going to make a hefty profit.
Game's budget was likely $300m~, and if the first three days had a sell-through that brought $765m then well damn, we have the the holidays, traditional long legs of R* games as well as Online coming up.
Rockstar getting a 40% cut of that would already recoup development cost from just the opening three days.
Game has sold well. To the surprise of no one*.
*except the people who believe it wouldn't, the moon landing was fake, and we're living in a simulation.