According to the Game Industry Association, Red Dead Redemption 2 has been officially announced, and as soon as a window of release is revealed, Macquarie Securities analyst Ben Schachter advises investors to anticipate that the game will sold 12 million units in that time. He is also expecting a PC version to appear in early 2018. Schachter said: "Notably, in the first hour, the announcement received 54K likes and 61K Twitter followers, 152K likes and 52K on Facebook and 65K on Instagram. "We think this shows that the demand is significantly accrued and the benefits to the next." Red Dead Redemption reached 14 million copies in the five years after its first release, $ 12 million in the second fiscal quarter of Take-Two the following year, starting July to September will be a comparative phenomenon.