The imminent release of GTA 6 could see developer Rockstar surpass GTA 5's record sales with more than $3 billion in revenue in its first year and around $1 billion in pre-orders alone, DFC Intelligence analysts predict, while other experts rate the hunger for the game as virtually. without equal.
talking to financial time (as VGC seen), DFC analysts agree that GTA 6, the long-awaited sequel to the best-selling console and PC game of all time, will end up being the biggest entertainment release of the year and, indeed, in history. The group predicts more than $3.2 billion in revenue in the game's first year, or double what GTA 5 achieved in the same period. (GTA 5, including GTA Online, has generated more than $8 billion in total by most estimates.)
Yoshio Osaki of IDG Consulting agreed with the general picture. “We think it will be one of the biggest entertainment launches in history, not just in games but across all media,” he told the Financial Times. “The pent-up demand is greater than anything we've seen before.”
Analysts and experts have thoroughly explored the great power that GTA 6 has over the gaming industry in 2025 and its fiscal prospects. Circana's Mat Piscatella, who previously called GTA 6 possibly the most important game ever released, told GamesRadar+ that 2025 The double whammy of GTA 6 and the still unannounced Nintendo Switch 2 is unprecedented.
“I can't remember a year like this where so much of what's going to happen is focused on just two products coming to market, right?” he reiterates. “There are a lot of eggs in the basket, so to speak. And we'll have to see how that goes. So it's really difficult until we get confirmation on when these things are going to show up and we start to see the results on how good or bad, 2025 is going to look.” from the perspective of the world of video games.”
One way this type of success and activity can spread throughout the games industry is by stoking the market and attracting funding and investment, which could drive opportunities at other levels of development.
Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Rockstar owner Take-Two, has been reserved but confident in his comments about the game. He recently reiterated that GTA 6 will be “worth the wait” and promises something players “simply haven't seen before.”
With games like GTA 6 and Monster Hunter Wilds slated for 2025, the Helldivers 2 lead says “it was pretty cool that we released it when we did.”