According to a recent briefing released by gaming industry expert Joost van Dreunen, the preliminary sales forecast for GTA6 is around 25 million.
"Assuming the game is released in 2025, early estimates suggest that 25 million copies of the game will be sold, given the publisher's propensity for latency," he wrote. He said the figure of 25 million is based on 20 percent of the expected host ownership in 2024-2025. That means the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S will reach around 125 million installations by then, and Sony expects PS5 shipments to reach 63.4 million units by March 2024.
GTA6 is expected to sell between 12 million and 14 million copies at launch, somewhat in line with the 11.21 million copies sold in 24 hours before the fifth generation.
Similarly, GTA6 is expected to earn $1 billion in sales in its first week of release. For reference, "Three Men and One Dog 5" exceeded $1 billion in sales in just 3 days.
While the release of GTA6 is expected to be a huge spectacle, it may not break the explosive release of the fifth generation. "Three Men and One Dog 5" sold a total of 32.5 million copies in the first quarter.
Having said that, it's impossible to know exactly how well GTA6 will sell. These are forecast-based forecasts, which in turn are based on expected market trends.
Recently, a source said that GTA6 will lead players to Cuba.
Recently, while talking about the issue during the livestream, Tyler McVicker was asked if he knew anything about GTA6.
Tyler McVicker said he has two playable characters with certain time jump nodes and uses Cuba as a playable area.
Tyler McVicker, who focuses primarily on Valve's game projects, has a proven track record of breaking news in the past.
It's not clear under what circumstances the time jump mentioned by Tyler McVicker will occur, but the previous game in the series opened the game with a time flashback, so this is not impossible for R Star.
The Cuba mentioned by Tyler McVicker feels like it's not part of the main area to explore, but rather something to be explored as part of the storyline.
According to foreign crypto media decrypt, rumors about GTA6's use of cryptocurrency systems have once again circulated on the Internet.
Foreign Web3 application distribution platform DappRadar was the first to mention the matter, saying that rumors about the cryptocurrency system in GTA6 continue to appear online. Follow-up Web3 consulting blogger MatDefies directly broke the news that the game will include P2E (Pay to win and earn) content.
However, these claims have not been confirmed at present. So far, neither developer Rockstar Games nor parent company Take-Two Interactive, have confirmed or denied these rumors. While Take-Two has moved into cryptocurrency when it comes to gaming, including letting its Zynga studio develop Web3 games, Rockstar issued a ban last November banning the use of NFTs and cryptocurrencies on fan-run game servers.
It is understood that rumors about cryptocurrencies began to circulate as early as 2021, and the well-known uncle Tom Henderson once posted that in addition to cryptocurrencies, the game will also introduce stock market functions and add brokers for different cryptocurrencies.
Since the above content is only anecdotal, the specific situation remains to be seen.