{"id":91508,"date":"2026-10-16T16:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91508"},"modified":"2026-10-16T16:37:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:37:05","slug":"all-the-records-gta-6-will-break-we-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91508","title":{"rendered":"All The Records GTA 6 Will Break, We Think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After years of development and perhaps more hype than for any game, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6-guides-hub-how-to-do-everything-in-grand-theft-auto-6\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6-guides-hub-how-to-do-everything-in-grand-theft-auto-6\/\">GTA 6<\/a> is set for release on November 19 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Predicting that it will be an enormous success commercially is perhaps one of the safest bets anyone could make. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But <em>just how big <\/em>will the launch be? And what records could GTA 6 beat if it delivers? <\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1922690\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Jason_and_Lucia_01_9c1af5.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1922690\" \/>Lucia and Jason in GTA 6. The records <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last GTA game, 2013&#8217;s GTA 5, was a huge hit right out of the gate. It brought in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gtav-generates-800-million-in-24-hours\/1100-6414611\/\">$800 million in revenue over its first 24 hours<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/grand-theft-auto-v-sales-reach-1-billion-in-three-days\/1100-6414762\/\">$1 billion in its first three days<\/a>. Even a decade later, the game remains a sales juggernaut, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/gallery\/top-10-best-selling-video-games-of-all-time\/2900-4814\/#9\">eclipsing 230 million copies sold and counting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rockstar&#8217;s latest game, 2018&#8217;s Red Dead Redemption II, launched with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/red-dead-redemption-2-boasts-huge-sales-at-launch\/1100-6462873\/\">$725 million in revenue over its opening weekend<\/a>. It&#8217;s gone on to sell more than 87 million copies, making it one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/gallery\/top-10-best-selling-video-games-of-all-time\/2900-4814\/\">top five best-selling games ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outside of Rockstar, Bethesda&#8217;s 2015 RPG Fallout 4 had a gigantic launch, shipping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/fallout-4-ships-12-million-copies-in-one-day-break\/1100-6432277\/\">12 million copies for launch day alone<\/a>, generating sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of development and perhaps more hype than for any game, GTA 6 is set for release on November 19 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Predicting that it will be an enormous success commercially is perhaps one of the safest bets anyone could make. But just how big will the launch be? And&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":91510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91508","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\/91508"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91511,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91508\/revisions\/91511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}