GTA 6 'Likely' To Make More Than $1 Billion Before It Launches In 2025, Say Analysts

Well, we're officially into 2025 now - which means it's GTA 6 launch year... if all goes to plan over at Rockstar. Yep, for now the game is simply slated to release sometime this year, and analysts have begun predicting just how lucrative a launch this could be for publisher Take-Two.

In an overview of GTA 6's money-making capabilities at the Financial Times, analysts at DFC Intelligence, a video games research group, have said that the game is "likely to exceed $1bn in pre-orders" prior to launch - which sounds like an absolutely absurd amount to us.

The same research group also believes that the game's year-one revenue could amount to roughly twice that of Grand Theft Auto V, with the GTA 6 number potentially reaching $3.2 billion of revenue in the first 12 months of sale. Crazy numbers, really.

Of course, it goes without saying that these are all projections for now - and most of us here could probably predict that GTA 6 will sell a silly amount of copies when it comes out. Still, it's interesting to attach these sorts of figures to a game that continues to feel like an absolute mystery at the turn of the year.

Even though these projections all look very favourable for Rockstar and Take-Two, the publisher's CEO has decided to stay calm and play things down a little bit here in this article. Strauss Zelnick tells FT "I never claim victory before it occurs" - which sounds like a sensible way to look at things, even if GTA 6 is almost guaranteed to be a huge success for the company.

What are your thoughts on these pre-release predictions for GTA 6 sales? Go ahead and crunch the numbers down below.

[source ft.com]