Sony has just announced that Grand Theft Auto 6 has become “the most pre-ordered game in the history of PlayStation Store”. Note, it’s not the most pre-ordered game in PlayStation history, just on its digital PlayStation Store.
The announcement, which comes as Sony prepares to ditch physical releases for an all-digital future, was made in a PlayStation Blog post confirming pre-loads for GTA 6 are now live.
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“Grand Theft Auto 6 is now the most pre-ordered game in the history of PlayStation Store,” Sony wrote. “Given this unprecedented demand, we’ve joined with Rockstar Games to allow players to start pre-loading the game nine days early, so they’re ready to play on launch day.
“We strongly advise that everyone who is hoping to play on launch day to pre-load the game as soon as possible,” the blog post added. So: consider yourselves advised.
GTA 6 becomes available as soon as your region’s clock ticks over from midnight into 19th November, which, if you’re in New Zealand, means you’ll play the game before everyone else. If only there were a way to pretend you lived there…
Elsewhere in the blog post, Sony underlined some features coming specially to GTA 6 on PS5 and PS5 Pro. On Xbox, meanwhile, cloud streaming is supported, but not – sadly – to PC.
Last night, in a Take-Two financial earnings call, company leader Strauss Zelnick said pre-orders for GTA 6 are tracking “far above expectations” and that soon, “numbers will speak for themselves”. Presumably because they will be gripped by an excited form of sentience. It’s expected that GTA 6 could become the best-selling instalment in an already mega-selling series; Zelnick reckons GTA 6 will “set a new baseline” for Take-Two in terms of success.
Have you managed to resist pre-ordering it yet?