GTA VI set for Nov. 19 as preorders reach estimated 6.45 million

Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto VI is scheduled to launch November 19, 2026, on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, with an estimated 6.45 million copies already preordered as of October 20, according to Sensor Tower. The game has not yet been released, and Rockstar has not confirmed a PC version. Sensor Tower estimates the preorders have generated about $630 million. It puts PlayStation 5 orders at 4.8 million copies and Xbox orders at 1.66 million. Those are estimates, not confirmed sales figures. An earlier forecast from Piper Sandler suggested the game could sell more than 45 million copies by launch, but that figure is also a projection. The November date places the release about 13 years after Grand Theft Auto V arrived in 2013. The new game is set in Leonida, a fictional state inspired by Florida, and follows Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos, a criminal couple. Its launch is scheduled for both current-generation consoles named by Rockstar; no timing for a PC release has been announced. The scale of anticipation has also prompted predictions about the release’s wider economic effects. One report attributed to unnamed experts a forecast that the U.S. economy could take a $1...