GTA 6 pre-orders far above expectations

What Take-Two said

Update (9 Nov 2026): Reported On the same earnings call, Strauss Zelnick said any news on a GTA 6 disc release and a PC version would come from Rockstar (Insider Gaming ↗). Asked by investors about AI, he said making hit games “remains the purview of human beings” (Eurogamer ↗).

On the Q2 fiscal 2027 earnings call (9 November 2026), CEO Strauss Zelnick said GTA 6 pre-orders are tracking “far above expectations” and that “numbers will speak for themselves” soon. He added that he expects the game to “set a new baseline” for Take-Two and called fiscal year 2027 a “historic year” for the company, per Eurogamer and Push Square. Take-Two president Karl Slatoff called the launch a “defining moment” for the company and for global entertainment.

Take-Two did not give a pre-order number. For the next quarter it guided $3.35 billion to $3.5 billion (PC Gamer’s headline says “as much as $3.5 billion”), with recurrent consumer spending up about 12 percent, driven by GTA 6. Eurogamer notes that the extra $20 between the $79.99 Standard and $99.99 Ultimate Edition is counted as recurrent consumer spending, and that most people are pre-ordering the Ultimate Edition.

Other points from the call

Zelnick said GTA 5 and GTA Online will keep getting updates; GTA 5 is at nearly 235 million units sold and the GTA series at over 480 million. He also said content from Take-Two’s big franchises, including GTA, will look “dramatically different” in speed over the next decade. Kotaku and Insider Gaming report that NBA 2K27 sold below expectations partly because some players held off on buying games before GTA 6. The Verge’s headline quotes Take-Two’s CEO saying Rockstar has completed development of GTA VI.

Related: Take-Two November earnings and the union ballot, GTA 6 price, editions and release time. These are company statements from an earnings call; the pre-order numbers you may see online are analyst estimates, not Take-Two figures.

Sources

• Eurogamer: GTA 6 pre-orders tracking well above expectations ↗
• Push Square: GTA 6 pre-orders outperform expectations ↗
• PC Gamer: Take-Two expects up to $3.5 billion during GTA 6 launch period ↗

Last checked: 09 Nov 2026. Labels: Official = Rockstar or platform holder, Reported = previews or press, Unconfirmed = not stated by Rockstar.

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