GTA 6's first player ratings surface early via PlayStation Store, oops

Grand Theft Auto VI has officially gone gold with preloads now available to those who have digitally pre-ordered the title; code-in-a-box preloads will begin on November 12.

It’s nigh impossible to go even an hour without hearing something new about the title. Rockstar Games has unveiled GTA VI: The Festival, for example, and confirmed that the game will run at 30fps.

Alongside this, early ratings for the highly anticipated title appear to have surfaced online via the PlayStation Store backend.

The ratings were spotted by Twitter/X user ps_store_db, who claims that a total of 11 ratings have been left.

By all accounts, all 11 ratings have marked the game as being five out of five stars.

This has to be taken with an enormously hefty pinch of salt. The PlayStation Store ratings aren’t publicly visible and, again, were reportedly sourced in the PSN backend.

You need to own a copy of a game in order to leave a rating so if real, these ratings aren’t totally random.

GTA VI is widely believed to be in the hands of media and/or creators, so the ratings could be from those with early hands-on experience.

Alternatively though, the ratings could simply have come from Rockstar Games developers if, again, they’re real.

We won’t truly know what the consensus on GTA VI is until an inevitable embargo lifts or launch day arrives with players flooding social media sites to offer their views.

We’re thrilled to see that soon-to-be players are taking these reviews with that aforementioned pinch of salt, but many are hyped to see what official scores GTA VI does land.

“I wonder what the game’s Metacritic score will be, will we have our first 97 score game since RDR 2?” asked Reddit user Loose_Society.

“No way the the MC score will be that high. Culture war has intensified 1000% since RDR2 released, and it's becoming more and more lucrative to post a bad review for ragebait and engagement,” replied sgeep. “However, I assume it will absolutely obliterate RDR2's sales.”

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GTA VI looks to have broken pre-order records already

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GTA VI certainly looks on track to sell well. Following the publication of Take-Two’s latest financial report, CEO Strauss Zelnick said that GTA VI’s pre-orders were “running far in excess of our expectations”, although exact figures weren’t revealed.

Speaking to Variety, he said: “That’s a good thing. That said, we never claim success before it occurs, so we’re just days away from beginning to see the fruits of our labour."

We do have confirmation that GTA VI is the most pre-ordered game in the history of PlayStation and Microsoft’s online stores.

Tracking bot Sensor Tower estimates that it has surpassed 9.6 million pre-orders, and there’s still over one week to go until launch day.

Cyberpunk 2077 did hold the record for the most pre-orders, with over 8 million copies shifted.

GTA V holds the record for the most launch day sales, which includes pre-orders and sales in the first 24-hours, having sold 11.21 million copies, so GTA VI isn’t far off surpassing just about every major record going.

GTA VI has a long way to go if it wants to dethrone the best-selling game of all-time, with Tetris having sold 520 million units.

Minecraft has come closest with 425 million sales followed by GTA V with 235 million. As huge as GTA VI will be, that’s a hefty record to top.