Sensor Tower now estimates 9.69 million digital pre-orders and about $942 million for Grand Theft Auto VI, nine days before launch. That clears Cyberpunk 2077's 8 million record on just two consoles, with no PC version and no physical copies counted.
Grand Theft Auto VI hasn’t sold a single copy at retail yet, and it already owns a record nobody has touched since 2020.
New estimates from data firm Sensor Tower put GTA 6 at 9.69 million digital pre-orders worth roughly $942 million, which pushes it past Cyberpunk 2077’s 8 million as the most pre-ordered game of all time. The game added about 1.98 million pre-orders in the last week alone, up from Sensor Tower’s previous estimate of 7.71 million, according to EGW, and it still has nine days to go before it launches November 19 on Xbox Series X|S and PS5.
GTA 6 has become the most pre-ordered game of all time, surpassing Cyberpunk 2077's record of 8 million.
, GTA 6 Info (@GTASixInfo) November 10, 2026
New estimates put GTA 6 at 9.69 million pre-orders, with nearly 2 million added in the past week alone.
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Look at what GTA 6 did this with. Cyberpunk’s record, which CD Projekt reported back in 2020, came with a PC version in the mix. GTA 6 got here on two consoles only. Sensor Tower’s tracker also only counts digital pre-orders, so any physical pre-orders through retailers aren’t in that 9.69 million at all. The real number is bigger, and we just don’t know by how much.
The pace is the scary part. Last week, Kotaku and GGRecon were reporting the 7.71 million figure, and GGRecon noted the game had picked up about 790,000 pre-orders that week, up from 470,000 the week before. Now it’s nearly 2 million in a single week. Demand isn’t flattening as launch gets close. It’s speeding up. GGRecon also reported that Sensor Tower’s own projection has GTA 6 reaching as many as 25 million pre-orders by launch day. That’s a forecast, not a count, but this week’s jump makes it sound a lot less crazy.
Xbox players are showing up big
Xbox fans have been told for years that nobody buys games on the box anymore. The numbers say otherwise. In last week’s tracker, GGRecon reported 1.97 million GTA 6 pre-orders on Xbox Series X|S, worth about $192 million. Today’s update puts Xbox Series X|S at about 2.46 million digital pre-orders worth around $239 million, roughly a quarter of the total, per Sensor Tower’s tracker as reported by GRYOnline. Xbox added about 490,000 pre-orders in a single week. That’s a launch-sized audience by itself before the game is even out. And it’s the version that the leaked Xbox case suggests comes with Dolby Vision support for players with the right TV.
And remember who isn’t in these numbers at all: PC players. Take-Two hasn’t announced a PC version, and Strauss Zelnick said on Monday’s call that “information always comes from our labels,” leaving any announcement to Rockstar. Every one of those 9.69 million pre-orders was set without the PC crowd, which means GTA 6’s eventual PC launch is a whole second wave waiting to hit.
Take-Two already said this was coming
None of this should surprise anyone who heard Take-Two’s earnings on Monday. In its results, Zelnick said GTA 6 pre-orders were “continuing to reach unprecedented levels.” The company’s earnings deck, as first spotted by The Verge, said pre-orders are tracking “far above” initial expectations and added, “we know that the numbers will speak for themselves soon enough.” Zelnick also told Variety that presales are “running far in excess of our expectations,” while being careful to add, “we never claim success before it’s earned.” We broke down the full call in our Take-Two earnings story.
Take-Two and Rockstar haven’t shared an official pre-order number, so Sensor Tower’s figure is a third-party estimate. But it lines up with everything the publisher is telling investors, and Zelnick confirmed on the same call that Rockstar has finished development. Xbox preloads are already live, and Rockstar is even running a ticket lottery for its Grand Theft Auto VI: The Festival event, with entries closing today at 4 PM ET.
The bar GTA 6 is chasing
For context, Sensor Tower’s own tracker page notes that GTA V had 7 million pre-orders back in 2013, then sold 11 million on launch day and 16 million in its first week. GTA 6 has already beaten that pre-order mark by more than 2.5 million copies on digital alone. GTA V has since sold roughly 235 million copies, per Take-Two’s latest figures reported by Insider Gaming.
So here’s where we land. If GTA 6 is breaking records with no PC version and no physical sales counted, launch week is going to rewrite the books. And Xbox players, you are a real part of that story, not a footnote. Get your preload done, clear that 212 GB, and get ready for November 19.
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Sources
- OnPoint 4 Gamers: Leaked GTA 6 Xbox case points to Dolby Vision
- EGW: GTA 6 Just Beat Cyberpunk 2077’s Record as the Most Pre-Ordered Game
- GGRecon: GTA 6 pre-orders hit 7.71 million, says Sensor Tower
- Kotaku: GTA 6 May Already Be One Of 2026’s Best-Selling Games
- TweakTown: GTA 6 is on track to beat Cyberpunk 2077’s pre-order record without a PC version
- GRYOnline: GTA 6 pobiło rekord Cyberpunka 2077
- Sensor Tower: GTA VI sales tracker
- The Verge: GTA VI pre-orders are tracking “far above” Take-Two’s initial expectations
- Variety: GTA 6 pre-orders and expectations
- Insider Gaming: GTA 5 Sales Reach Almost 235 Million Copies Since Launch
- X: GTA 6 Info on the new Sensor Tower estimate
- X: Rockstar Games festival lottery reminder
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