# GTA 6 Just Got A Jaw-Dropping Sales Prediction

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/gta-6-just-got-a-jaw-dropping-sales-prediction/
- Published: 2026-07-16T13:22:54+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-03T08:18:36+00:00
- Original publisher: GameSpot
- Original article: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/gta-6-just-got-a-jaw-dropping-sales-prediction/
- Topics: Americas, Celebrity, Entertainment, Gaming, GTA 6

## Key points

- Newzoo forecasts up to $5.2 billion in GTA 6’s first week.
- Even the low estimate exceeds GTA 5’s initial revenue.
- The projection relies partly on strong pre-order spending.

## Summary

Research firm Newzoo has forecast that Grand Theft Auto 6 could generate between $3.3 billion and $5.2 billion in worldwide sales during its first week after release. The estimate underlines the unusually high expectations surrounding Rockstar’s next game, with even the lower end exceeding the $1 billion GTA 5 made in its first 72 hours in 2013.

Newzoo based its projection on its Game Performance Monitor and estimated that digital pre-order spending reached $180 million in the final week of June across the US and five major European markets: the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. It used GTA 5’s player distribution, in which those six markets represented about 69% of lifetime console players, to scale the figure into a global estimate; the forecast remains an analyst projection rather than a sales target from Rockstar or Take-Two.

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