{"id":87261,"date":"2026-08-07T08:53:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87261"},"modified":"2026-08-07T09:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:41:12","slug":"unsurprisingly-gta-6-has-take-two-predicting-a-massively-profitable-year-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87261","title":{"rendered":"Unsurprisingly, GTA 6 Has Take-Two Predicting A Massively Profitable Year Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6-has-not-been-delayed-still-on-track-for-its-november-launch\/\">GTA 6 still scheduled to launch in November<\/a>, publisher Take-Two Interactive is expecting its current financial year&#8211;running from April 1 to March 31, 2027&#8211;to be very profitable. The company is expecting a 20% growth through the middle of the 2026 financial year, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20260806868549\/en\/Take-Two-Interactive-Software-Inc.-Reports-Results-for-Fiscal-First-Quarter-2027\">revenue predicted<\/a> to reach $8.2 billion thanks to GTA 6 and several other games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Take-Two&#8217;s estimates, it&#8217;s forecasting that Rockstar Games will be responsible for roughly 37% of its revenue, Zynga 34%, and other games from the 2K label will make up 29% of that revenue. GTA 6 will likely bring in an absurd amount of cash, alongside other legacy titles from Rockstar Games like GTA 5&#8211;which is the second-best-selling game of all time&#8211;Red Dead Redemption 2, and the microtransactions attached to those older titles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zynga still remains a sales juggernaut with its portfolio of mobile games, while the 2K Games label includes annual sports titles like NBA, PGA Tour, and WWE&#8211;all lucrative IP that have significant post-launch strategies. To put that into perspective, NBA 2K26 was a big hit this year for Take-Two Interactive, and it has had an &#8220;outstanding&#8221; year thanks to a boost in microtransaction sales. &#8220;Our live-service execution remains a cornerstone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With GTA 6 still scheduled to launch in November, publisher Take-Two Interactive is expecting its current financial year&#8211;running from April 1 to March 31, 2027&#8211;to be very profitable. The company is expecting a 20% growth through the middle of the 2026 financial year, with\u00a0revenue predicted to reach $8.2 billion thanks to GTA 6 and several&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":87263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87264,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87261\/revisions\/87264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}