{"id":92827,"date":"2026-11-10T09:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92827"},"modified":"2026-11-10T09:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:46:22","slug":"gta-6-preorder-numbers-are-so-good-even-take-two-is-struggling-to-believe-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92827","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6 Preorder Numbers Are So Good, Even Take-Two Is Struggling To Believe Them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6-guides-hub-how-to-do-everything-in-grand-theft-auto-6\/\">Grand Theft Auto 6<\/a> looks set to be the best-selling game of 2026, and even publisher Take-Two Interactive is surprised at just how big the demand for it has been ahead of launch. In its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.take2games.com\/ir\/news\/take-two-interactive-software-inc-reports-results-fiscal-4\">second-quarter fiscal year 2027<\/a> results, Take-Two was bullish on the sales numbers for the game, but it has only slightly adjusted its forecast for the financial year ending March 31, 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Preorders for Grand Theft Auto 6 are tracking far above our initial expectations, and we know that the numbers will speak for themselves soon enough,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/geoffkeighley\/status\/2119900440070688858\">Take-Two said<\/a>. Originally, the publisher had predicted to make $7.9 \u2013 $8.1 billion in its current financial year, and it has increased this figure to $7.98 \u2013 $8.18 billion. Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/theres-no-such-thing-as-easy-money-in-our-business-strauss-zelnick-on-gta-6-bioshock-take-twos-acquisition-plans-and-reviving-old-ip\">GamesIndustry.Biz<\/a>, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said the reason for the modest increase was due to GTA 6&#8217;s launch being so close.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oxqys4Nm4Cs  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;[We cannot] disclose the numbers, but the point that we\u2019re making is our prior expectations obviously were aligned with our guidance, and the preorders are far exceeding our original expectations,&#8221; Zelnick said. &#8220;We\u2019re maintaining our guidance, because the release is only 10 days away and we\u2019ll know a lot more after the release. We\u2019re<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Theft Auto 6 looks set to be the best-selling game of 2026, and even publisher Take-Two Interactive is surprised at just how big the demand for it has been ahead of launch. In its second-quarter fiscal year 2027 results, Take-Two was bullish on the sales numbers for the game, but it has only slightly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":92829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92827","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\/92827"}],"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=92827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92830,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92827\/revisions\/92830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}