GTA 6 presales have topped an estimated $1 billion, with 10.31 million copies, about a week before the game launches.
Insider Gaming reports, citing analytics firm Sensor Tower, that the game has an estimated 10.31 million copies sold ahead of launch. The game is due on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on 19 November, and reviews land a day earlier.
That’s up from Sensor Tower’s 3 November estimate of more than $750 million and 7.71 million copies. By Insider Gaming’s arithmetic, the game has added more than 2.6 million copies and roughly $250 million in just over seven days.
These are estimates, not official sales. Insider Gaming makes that point itself, and neither Rockstar nor parent company Take-Two Interactive has confirmed a figure. Tweaktown also reported the numbers and says they are net of returns, so expected refunds and cancellations have already been removed. It also puts PlayStation at about 75% of sales.
Take-Two hasn’t given a pre-order figure of its own. Its results on 9 November put net bookings guidance for October to December at $3.35 billion to $3.5 billion vs $1.76 billion a year earlier. That range covers all of the company’s games, though Take-Two says GTA 6 drives it.
The company has been upbeat about demand, though. Here’s how Take-Two chief executive Strauss Zelnick put it:
The launch of Grand Theft Auto VI is ten days away and, with pre-orders continuing to reach unprecedented levels, we expect to deliver an historic year for our company.
Strauss Zelnick, Take-Two CEO
Take-Two also kept its full-year net bookings outlook at $8 billion to $8.2 billion.
Projections are a different kind of number. Newzoo’s July analysis, as Insider Gaming reports, said GTA 6 could generate between $3.3 billion and $5.2 billion in cumulative global sales by the end of its first week. The $5 billion figure in Insider Gaming’s report comes from that projection, not from sales, and Insider Gaming itself calls Newzoo’s launch numbers forecasts rather than guaranteed results.
For comparison, Insider Gaming says GTA 5 made more than $1 billion in its first three days on the market. Yahoo Finance says Sensor Tower’s Karl Kontus estimated total pre-orders could reach about 25 million, not the 40 million-plus a standard trajectory might suggest. He says demand looks unusually front-loaded, with a bigger share of buyers committing early.
The game unlocks at midnight local time on 19 November. In the UAE, the standard edition is listed at AED 299.16 on the PlayStation Store, and the Ultimate at AED 373.96, as of 9 November. Tbreak’s UAE price guide has the details.
