GTA 6 pre-orders are already dominating 2025

Grand Theft Auto VI is, to the surprise of absolutely no one, set to break every sales record in existence when it drops later this year.

The report comes from Financial Times’ Tim Bradshaw, by way of a report from DFC Intelligence (a video game research and analysis company).

“Grand Theft Auto VI, which publisher Take-Two Interactive is set to release in the autumn on PlayStation and Xbox consoles, is likely to exceed $1bn in pre-orders before it even becomes available,” writes the Financial Times.

“Total revenues from GTA VI’s first 12 months after release are expected to reach $3.2bn, DFC predicts, double its 2013 predecessor. Such a success would far outstrip 2024’s biggest films Inside Out 2, which grossed $1.7bn globally according to Box Office Mojo, and Deadpool & Wolverine, which has taken $1.3bn.”

Those numbers are pretty nutty, but they are absolutely within the realm of possibility. In fact, I’d even wager that they’ll probably eclipse DFC’s predictions (based merely on the unfathomable levels of hype surrounding this game).

As per usual, Rockstar Games’ only real competition in breaking these sales numbers is… Rockstar Games.

Grand Theft Auto V broke pretty much every single sales record conceivable. It made over a billion in sales in its first three days and it sold over 29 million copies in its first six weeks on the market.

So what do Take-Two think of all this? Unsurprisingly, they seem quietly confident.

“I never claim victory before it occurs… That said, I think [GTA’s developer] Rockstar Games will once again deliver something absolutely phenomenal… Certainly the anticipation is high,” Take-Two’s Strauss Zelnick told the Financial Times.”

Saying “the anticipation is high” is putting it pretty lightly mate, but we’ll have to see exactly how these sales predictions pan out when the game (hopefully) drops later this year.