Take-Two expects net bookings of $3.35 billion to $3.5 billion for the quarter, holding GTA 6’s launch, per its second-quarter results published on 9 November.
Take-Two says the October-to-December quarter is “driven by the groundbreaking release of Grand Theft Auto 6”. The range covers every game it sells, not GTA 6 alone. In the same quarter a year earlier, net bookings came to $1.76 billion, so the forecast is nearly double that figure. It’s still a forecast, though, and Take-Two doesn’t break out how much of it GTA 6 will account for.
Take-Two’s chief executive was upbeat about demand ahead of launch:
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 still hasn’t given a pre-order figure. The company previously said it wouldn’t reveal the total because “the raw numbers could potentially be misleading”. The guidance also sits slightly below the $3.51 billion analysts expected, according to Tyler Wilde at PC Gamer, citing LSEG data via Reuters. For the full fiscal year, Take-Two kept its outlook of $8 billion to $8.2 billion, the same range it reiterated earlier this year.
The quarter just gone was weaker. Net bookings for the three months to 30 September fell 18% to $1.60 billion, from $1.96 billion, missing Take-Two’s guidance of $1.62 billion to $1.67 billion. Zelnick said NBA 2K27 fell short: it posted the second-highest net bookings in the series’ history but missed forecast. He told Bloomberg that anticipation for GTA 6 contributed to that shortfall, while GTA itself “exceeded our forecast”.
The results came days after Zelnick’s comments on GTA 6 piracy, with the launch close. GTA 6 launches on 19 November, with pre-loads opening on 10 November; our GTA 6 UAE price guide has the local price and unlock time. We’ll know whether bookings land inside that range when the company reports results for the quarter to 31 December.
