We’re two weeks out from the beginning of Grand Theft Auto 6‘s global launch, and one knowledge agency is claiming it’s already bought almost 8 million copies. Not surprisingly, it additionally claims roughly three quarters of these gross sales are on PlayStation 5.
Knowledge agency Sensor Tower has updated its GTA 6 sales tracker and at present has Rockstar Video games’ newest open-world crime simulator at an estimated 7.71 million copies bought through pre-orders alone. That comes out to an estimated $751 million in income, with Sensor Tower claiming a breakdown of roughly 74 p.c of copies bought on PS5 in comparison with 26 p.c on Xbox Collection X/S.
The trendline exhibits an uptick within the rate of pre-orders bought following the prolonged gameplay reveal on Netflix, and it certain looks as if Sony’s unique advertising marketing campaign for GTA 6 has helped give it a bump over Xbox. The truth that a base PS5 is cheaper than a base Xbox Collection X may be an element. In line with Sensor Tower, 1.97 million copies have been pre-ordered on Xbox in comparison with 5.74 million on PS5.
Given Xbox’s struggles this console era, that quantity isn’t nice, but it surely could possibly be a lot worse. Particularly when it has to resort to sticking {hardware} inside an alligator to get round marketing prohibitions on talking about GTA 6 coming to Xbox Series X/S.
To place the general estimate of seven.71 million pre-order gross sales in perspective, Cyberpunk 2077 reportedly amassed around 8 million total pre-orders within the run as much as its 2020 launch. That quantity additionally already places it simply behind Resident Evil Requiem‘s estimated 8.5 million sales which, for now not less than, are sufficient to make Capcom’s horror sequel the second best-selling game of 2026 in the U.S. so far.
And it’s only a small chunk of what some analysts are predicting for complete launch window gross sales. Monetary companies agency Piper Sandler is predicting 45 million gross sales when GTA 6 comes out. Something much less could be seen as disappointing, even when it might nonetheless be properly over the $800 million GTA 5 made throughout its first 24 hours. It’s going to be the largest sport launch ever. We’ll see if it finally ends up being sufficiently big for Take-Two’s buyers.