Digital pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI have reached 7.71 million copies, according to estimates from the analytics firm Sensor Tower. Players placed roughly another 790,000 pre-orders over the past week, which means that the total stood at around 6.9 million a week earlier. The game is due for release on November 19 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, so the figures reflect the demand that has built up in the two weeks before launch, and the steady weekly additions show that buyers are still placing orders as the date comes closer.
The platform split is heavily in favour of PlayStation. PlayStation accounts for 74 percent of all pre-orders, while Xbox accounts for the remaining 26 percent, and the ratio has not changed over the past week. In revenue terms, Sensor Tower calculates that pre-orders have already generated around $751 million. Of that amount, about $559 million comes from PlayStation and approximately $192 million from Xbox, which shows that the gap between the two platforms is as wide in money as it is in the number of copies reserved by players.
It is important to note how these numbers were produced. They are analytical estimates of digital pre-orders after refunds, and they do not come from Rockstar Games or its parent company, Take-Two Interactive, neither of which has published official pre-order statistics. The estimates also cover only digital sales, so copies reserved at physical stores are not part of the total. This means the actual number of reservations is likely to differ from the figures shared by the analytics firm, and readers should treat the numbers as a snapshot of the demand that the tracking tools were able to see.
Even as estimates, the figures give a sense of the scale of interest in the game, which is one of the most anticipated releases in the history of the industry. With two weeks still to go before the launch date, the pre-order revenue has already passed $750 million, and the weekly additions suggest that the total will keep rising until release day. Rockstar Games is expected to share its own sales figures after the game goes on sale on November 19, and those numbers will show how close the estimates of Sensor Tower came to the actual results for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
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