GTA 6 predicted to be the biggest entertainment launch in history with over $1 billion sales from pre-orders alone

Rockstar Games’ GTA 6 is scheduled to release sometime in Fall 2025, bringing fans back to Vice City generations after the locale’s debut. With propositions of episodic DLC releases and a brand-new take on GTA Online, the new open-world game is going to make billions of dollars.

However, professional games industry analysts claim that the success of GTA 6 will be final before its release. As soon as pre-orders open for the upcoming open-world crime game, Rockstar is expected to rake in its first billion before launch.

GTA 6 to earn a billion before launch

Industry analyst firm DFC Intelligence have already called GTA 6 the biggest entertainment release of 2025, crushing the likes of Zootopia 2, Wicked: For Good and Fantastic Four. The firm predicts that even Disney’s biggest releases will be easily beaten by the long-awaited sequel.

In an interview with The Financial Times, the firm believes that the new Grand Theft Auto release will manage to rake in double its predecessor’s first-year sales figures. This would put Grand Theft Auto 6 sales in its first year above $3.2 billion, around three times the global box office of Deadpool and Wolverine.

Alongside the massive forecast for the game’s first year, GTA 6 is expected to have a massive pre-order surge, crushing any other video gane launch. DFC claims that one billion dollars is all-but-guaranteed to be earned before release.

The biggest launch in all of entertainment

DFC Intelligence’s claims were immediately echoed by IDG Consulting, another game’s analyst firm. Alongside the massive first-year sale, the game’s release is expected to be a much bigger release than any entertainment product in history. While superlative in claim, the massive sales of the game’s predecessor does lend credence to this estimation.

“We think it’s going to be one of the biggest entertainment launches in history, not just in games but for all of media. The pent-up demand is greater than anything we’ve seen before,” claims IDG Consulting CEO Yoshio Osaki.

Now over a year from its initial reveal trailer, fans are still holding on to hear any additional details about the game. After multiple failed theories, a second trailer should hopefully release sometime soon.