Claims About GTA 6 Pre-Orders Are Incorrect and "Absurd", Analyst Firm Says, but It's Still Had the "Strongest Pre-Order Campaign Ever Recorded"
Newzoo said the game’s first week of digital preorders was its largest opening ever and could help drive $4.5 billion in launch-week sales.
- Newzoo reported that Grand Theft Auto pre-orders generated an estimated $260 million in global digital spending during the first week, the largest opening the firm has observed for any video game.
- Rockstar sparked controversy by abandoning physical discs, pricing the Standard Edition at $80 and the Ultimate Edition at $100, with both containing only download codes instead of Blu-ray discs.
- While Grand Theft Auto may cost up to $1.5 billion to develop, Newzoo predicts launch-week sales could reach $4.5 billion, far exceeding the previous GTA entry's nearly 230 million units sold.
- During an appearance at the iicon event, Strauss Zelnick defended the pricing strategy, arguing that players judge value rather than raw cost: "Consumers pay for the value that you bring to them, and our job is to charge way way way less of the value delivery."
- Newzoo's trajectory points to between $3.25 billion and $5.2 billion in cumulative launch-week revenue, with management consultant Ronan Patrick noting the title "front-loads harder than any major title" in the firm's dataset.
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According to Newzoo's estimates, GTA VI would have generated $260 million worldwide in the first week of digital presales. For the official launch planned in November, the game is expected to sell at 51 million copies in the first week.
Claims about GTA 6 pre-orders are incorrect and "absurd", analyst firm says, but it's still had the "strongest pre-order campaign ever recorded"
We all knew that GTA 6 was going to be big, but new data from a video game market data analyst group suggests Rockstar's upcoming sandbox game has already earned in excess of $260m for the company.
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