Grand Theft Auto 5 (cash)Rockstar Games

Nearly five years after “Grand Theft Auto 5” first launched, the game continues to quietly dominate. As of late June, nearly 100 million copies have been sold.

It’s the third best-selling game of all time, just below “Tetris” and “Minecraft.” That’s because it keeps selling — “GTA 5” has been on the top 20 best-selling games in the US every month since it launched, barring a single month where it dropped to number 21.

And the studio that made “GTA 5,” Rockstar Games, is on the verge of releasing a brand new game: “Red Dead Redemption 2.”

Red Dead Redemption 2“Red Dead Redemption 2” is conceptually similar to the “GTA” series, in that it’s an open-world, third-person action game. Tonally, it’s very different.Rockstar Games

It’s for these reasons, broadly speaking, that we’re likely still years away from the next entry in the “Grand Theft Auto” series.

But, as you might expect, it’s much more complicated than that.