GTA 6 pre-orders

Sensor Tower's sales tracker now estimates GTA 6 has 7.71 million digital pre-orders worldwide, worth about $751 million, in the update GameSpot reported on November 4, 2026, with PlayStation still accounting for 74% of them. These are third-party estimates that cover digital copies only, and Take-Two has confirmed no figure of its own, so read them as a strong directional signal rather than a sales report.

The numbers in the November 4 update#

• Worldwide total: 7.71 million digital pre-orders and about $751 million, which GameSpot describes as gross revenue.
• PlayStation 5: 5.74 million copies and $559 million, a 74% share.
• Xbox Series X|S: 1.97 million copies and $192 million, a 26% share.
• Pace: that is 1.26 million more copies and about $121 million more than the October 20 snapshot below, our subtraction of the two updates. Dexerto puts the gain at "more than $100 million in additional pre-order revenue over the past two weeks". Over the 15 days between the two reports that is about 590,000 copies a week, our arithmetic, against the 370,000 the tracker added between October 13 and 20.
• Launch projection: GameSpot says Sensor Tower projects as many as 25 million pre-purchases by launch; at the current split that would be about 18.5 million on PS5 and 6.5 million on Xbox. The tracker itself publishes no date stamp we could read, so this page dates each figure by the report that carried it.

One wording difference to keep in mind: the October figures below were reported as revenue net of returns, while GameSpot calls the November figure gross revenue. The two growth numbers above assume both reports describe the same measure, which Sensor Tower has not spelled out.

The numbers as of October 20, 2026#

• Worldwide total: 6.45 million digital pre-orders, about $630 million net of returns, from Sensor Tower's weekly tracker update, reported by TechPowerUp on October 20, 2026.
• PlayStation 5: about 4.80 million copies, roughly $468 million, a 74% share.
• Xbox Series X|S: about 1.66 million copies, roughly $162 million, a 26% share.
• A week earlier: 6.08 million copies and about $594 million as of October 13, per GamesIndustry.biz, so the tracker added around 370,000 copies in seven days.

Divide the two October headline figures and the average pre-order comes to about $98 (the November figures give about $97), closer to the $100 Ultimate Edition than the $79.99 Standard Edition. That is our arithmetic on Sensor Tower's numbers rather than a published figure, and it fits the tracker's finding that the vast majority of buyers chose the Ultimate Edition.

How GTA 6 compares with other launches#

Sensor Tower also measured GTA 6 against recent blockbusters, among them Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2022), Diablo 4, Hogwarts Legacy and Marvel's Spider-Man 2. At the same distance from launch, GTA 6's US digital pre-orders run 148% ahead of Modern Warfare 2, the best performer in that comparison, GamesIndustry.biz reports. The closer comparison is GTA 5 itself: Dexerto notes that Take-Two reported more than $800 million in GTA 5 sales in its first 24 hours in September 2013, so the digital pre-order estimate alone is now close to that figure, although one is a third-party estimate before launch and the other is the publisher's own sell-in after it.

Four caveats matter before anyone quotes these numbers:

• They are estimates built from Sensor Tower's own panel data and modelling, not publisher data.
• They cover digital copies only, so boxed pre-orders are missing.
• The 148% comparison is US digital pre-orders, a narrower slice than the worldwide total.
• Sensor Tower changed its estimation model on October 5, 2026, so snapshots from before that date are not a clean like-for-like comparison.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said in August 2026 that pre-orders were skewing toward the $100 Ultimate Edition, which is the closest thing to an official comment on demand.

What to expect next#

Pre-load opens on November 10, 2026, nine days before launch, Rockstar announced on November 3, and that is when a tracker like this usually climbs fastest, because pre-order downloads finally start. The other date to watch is November 9: Take-Two reports its quarterly results that day, its last scheduled update before launch, and our Take-Two earnings preview explains what the report will and will not contain. Our pre-load guide has the dates, the price and editions guide has the full line-up, the pre-order bonus guide covers the Vintage Vice City Pack, and the Ultimate Edition explainer lists what the $100 version includes. GTA 6 launches on November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.