Grand Theft Auto VI may have already become the most pre-ordered video game ever made. A fresh sales estimate from Sensor Tower puts the game at close to 10 million pre-orders, with launch only days away.
The report lands one day after Take-Two described the game's pre-order numbers as "unprecedented." Sensor Tower's tracker now backs up that language with hard figures.
A sharp acceleration
The most striking detail is the pace. Sensor Tower estimates about 1.98 million pre-orders came in over the past week alone, a huge jump from the increases of a few hundred thousand that earlier weeks had seen.
That lifts GTA 6 past the previous benchmark, the 8 million pre-orders Cyberpunk 2077 reportedly collected, according to figures published by GamesIndustry.biz. It's worth keeping some context in mind, though. CD Projekt Red's game had a pre-order window roughly a year longer, and it launched on PC from day one, which gave it access to a large PC audience. GTA 6 is arriving only on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Nearly $1 billion in revenue
At close to 10 million copies, Sensor Tower estimates Rockstar has already taken in about $942 million. About $191 million of that came in the last week.
For scale, that figure is already above the $800 million GTA V made in its first 24 hours on sale, the record that has stood since 2013. Pre-orders are not the same thing as launch-day sales, and this number is an estimate rather than anything Rockstar or Take-Two has confirmed.
PlayStation holds a commanding lead
The platform split continues to favor Sony. Of the roughly 1.98 million pre-orders placed last week, about 1.49 million were for PS5 and 490,000 were for Xbox. Xbox's overall share of pre-orders slipped by one percentage point this week, after gaining a point a few weeks earlier.
The biggest week is still ahead
If history is any guide, these numbers could climb further. Other data firms say the final week before launch is usually the biggest for pre-orders, which suggests this week's total could top the last one. Sensor Tower's updated figures are expected early next week.
GTA 6 launches on November 19, and pre-loading is already rolling out on both consoles. We'll be following the numbers closely as launch day approaches.
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