GTA 6 Is Now the Most Pre-Ordered Game Ever on PlayStation and Xbox Stores

PlayStation confirmed through its official channels that GTA 6 is the most pre-ordered game in PlayStation Store history, without naming the previous holder. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said the same for the Microsoft Store. Sensor Tower's latest estimate puts pre-orders at about 9.69 million copies, worth close to $1 billion before anyone has played the game, up from about 7.71 million copies and $751 million in its November 3 estimate. That would pass Cyberpunk 2077's roughly 8 million pre-orders, the benchmark since

2020. Sensor Tower also estimates about 1.98 million of those pre-orders came in the last week, and about 75 percent are on PlayStation

5. Sony and Microsoft confirmed only the records themselves, not the counts, so the unit and revenue figures remain third-party estimates.

The partnership is the bigger unknown. Sharma called the announcement the first step in a new 10-year strategic partnership with Take-Two, but gave no details on what it covers beyond cloud gaming. What is confirmed: GTA 6 will be playable through Xbox Cloud Gaming on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One from launch, using Xbox Series S graphics settings, with streaming starting at 1am ET on November

19. Xbox also plans to bring more Rockstar titles to the service, including Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption

2. The deal is not an exclusivity agreement for the game itself, which still launches natively on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.

Pre-loading is live now for digital pre-orders, at about 212GB, and code-in-box buyers can redeem their code and start downloading once they receive it. Rockstar has also confirmed the game targets 30 frames per second on every console, with PSSR clarity and ray-traced shadows exclusive to PlayStation 5 Pro. Grand Theft Auto VI launches November 19 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.

Grand Theft Auto VI launches November 19, 2026.