GTA 6 predicted to make over $1,000,000,000 in pre-orders alone say analysts
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Analysts are expecting GTA 6 to be a massive money maker when it launches, but it may not be a perfect solution to the games industry’s woes. Assuming it isn’t delayed, GTA 6 will undoubtedly be the most important video game release of 2025. It’s such a big deal that other publishers are reportedly refraining from announcing autumn 2025 release dates for their games to avoid directly competing with it.
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Surprisingly, 2024 saw no updates on GTA 6’s progress, with none of the fan theories of when a second trailer would drop proving accurate. As such, expectations are high for developer Rockstar to share something later this year. While there’s no telling when that will happen, one thing you can predict is that GTA 6 will make a lot of money when it comes out. In fact, analysts are predicting it will manage to shatter the records set by GTA 5 when it launched in 2013.
Speaking with The Financial Times, market research firm DFC Intelligence predicts that GTA 6 will make $1 billion just in pre-orders. That’s a feat not even GTA 5 managed, with it meeting the same threshold three days after its release. DFC Intelligence adds that it then expects GTA 6 to generate $3.2 billion in revenue in its first 12 months on the market. Not only is this twice as much as GTA 5 made in the same timeframe, but it’s also far more than any movie that came out in 2024. For comparison’s sake, the highest grossing movie last year was Inside Out 2 at almost $1.7 billion at the box office.
