GTA 6 pre-orders are far above expectations, says Take-Two
Take-Two says GTA 6 pre-orders are tracking far above its initial expectations, but it isn't sharing numbers yet. Here's what it said ahead of November 19.
10th Nov 2026 19:45
Image via Rockstar Games
GTA 6 pre-orders are far above expectations, says Take-Two
Take-Two says GTA 6 pre-orders are tracking far above its initial expectations, but it isn't sharing numbers yet. Here's what it said ahead of November 19.
10th Nov 2026 19:45
Image via Rockstar Games
Grand Theft Auto 6 isn't out for another nine days, but it's already beating its owner's own forecasts, as Take-Two says pre-orders are "tracking far above our initial expectations".
The line came from Take-Two's results for its second fiscal quarter, published on Monday (November 9) and reported by Shacknews and Kotaku, ahead of GTA 6's launch on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on November 19.
The numbers will speak for themselves (eventually)
Take-Two didn't put an actual figure on those pre-orders, saying instead that "the numbers will speak for themselves soon enough", which is about as close to a mic drop as an earnings presentation gets. It kept its full-year net bookings forecast at $8 billion to $8.2 billion, and Shacknews reports the company expects recurrent consumer spending to grow by 12%, with "significant growth" from the GTA series led by sales of the Ultimate Edition.
That fits with what Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick told CNBC back in August, when he said pre-orders were skewing towards the pricier edition (US$100, against US$80 for the Standard Edition) and suggested the most avid fans tend to be the ones who pre-order, as VGC reported at the time.
GTA 6 also has a fairly tall shadow to step out of, as Kotaku points out that GTA 5 still sells roughly five million copies a quarter, with the series as a whole close to 480 million units sold.
Pre-loading is already open
If you're one of those many pre-orders, you can start downloading now, as Rockstar opened digital pre-loading today (November 10), with the game needing up to 212GB depending on your console. Rockstar also confirmed today that GTA 6 targets 30fps on consoles, with ray-traced shadows only on PS5 Pro, which we've covered in our piece on how GTA 6 runs on PS5 and Xbox, while the timings are in our GTA 6 pre-load guide.
Code-in-box copies should be in shops from November 12, and the game unlocks at midnight local time on November 19. Well, judging by those pre-orders, Leonida's going to be rather busy.
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