With Grand Theft Auto 6 set to launch on November 19, Sensor Tower estimates it has already drawn more than 10 million digital preorders on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S, worth about $1 billion.

Sony and Microsoft confirmed record preorders on the PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store, but neither disclosed sales figures, and Rockstar Games has not published an official count.

The headline preorder figures are estimates, not confirmed sales; Take-Two plans to release official preorder numbers after launch.

Sensor Tower’s estimate climbed rapidly, from 7.71 million preorders and more than $750 million in estimated revenue on November 3 to nearly eight million orders and $751 million by November 7.

Strauss Zelnick said preorders are tracking far above expectations and predicted the game will set a new baseline for Take-Two’s success.

Take-Two forecasts current-quarter net bookings of $3.35 billion to $3.5 billion, roughly twice the $1.76 billion recorded in the comparable quarter a year earlier, and expects fiscal 2027 bookings of $8 billion to $8.2 billion, up from $6.72 billion in fiscal 2026.

The projections reflect the scale of the opportunity: Grand Theft Auto V earned $1 billion in its first three days in 2013, while Red Dead Redemption 2 brought in $725 million in its first three days in 2018.

The game unlocks at midnight local time on November 19, rather than worldwide simultaneously, so New Zealand will be first, at 12 a.m. NZDT.

Players will need about 212 GB of storage on either platform, and the physical retail edition is a code-in-box rather than a disc.

On PS5, the game uses DualSense speakers, haptics and adaptive triggers, Tempest 3D Audio, and the console’s high-speed SSD; PS5 Pro adds PSSR upscaling and ray-traced shadows.

Strauss Zelnick said development is complete and the game has gone gold, although Rockstar has not made a matching announcement; decisions on PC, Nintendo Switch 2, and physical-disc releases remain with the developers.

The launch is already affecting players’ calendars: BambooHR found November 19 time-off requests were 13 percent higher than on comparable days in 2024 and 2025, while 18 percent of surveyed salaried workers said they planned to take the day off.