GTA 6 Pre-Orders Reach 'Unprecedented Levels' as Take-Two Reports Q2 Results

GTA 6 pre-orders have reached unprecedented levels, according to Take-Two Interactive, which reported its fiscal second-quarter 2027 results after the US market closed on Monday, November 9. With Grand Theft Auto VI launching on November 19 — ten days from the results — CEO Strauss Zelnick told investors the company expects to deliver a historic year, reiterating its full-year outlook for net bookings of $8 billion to $8.2 billion.

GTA 6 Pre-Orders: What Take-Two Said About Launch Demand

Zelnick's exact words were that the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI is ten days away and, with pre-orders continuing to reach unprecedented levels, we expect to deliver an historic year for our company. It is the strongest signal yet from Take-Two about launch demand, and it lands ten days before release. Preloading for GTA 6 opens today, November 10, so pre-orders will start converting into installed copies immediately.

Zelnick also confirmed on the earnings call that Rockstar has completed development of GTA VI, The Verge reported, and said pre-orders are tracking far in excess of the company's initial expectations. Take-Two reiterated its fiscal 2027 net bookings outlook of $8 billion to $8.2 billion, and lifted its full-year GAAP revenue outlook by $80 million to a range of $7.98 billion to $8.18 billion. For the current quarter — the one that includes the GTA 6 launch — the company guided to net bookings of $3.35 billion to $3.50 billion, GAAP revenue of $3.27 billion to $3.42 billion, and GAAP earnings of $1.30 to $1.44 a share.

Take-Two Q2 FY2027 Results: The Numbers

• Net bookings of $1.60 billion, down 18% from $1.96 billion a year earlier, just below Take-Two's own forecast of $1.62 billion to $1.67 billion.
• GAAP net revenue of $1.50 billion, down from $1.77 billion in the same quarter last year.
• GAAP net loss of $54.0 million, or $0.29 per share, narrower than the $133.9 million loss a year ago.
• Recurrent consumer spending fell 9% and accounted for 81% of total net bookings.
• NBA 2K27 has sold more than 4 million units, though that was below Take-Two's forecast for the launch.
• The Borderlands franchise has now passed 100 million units sold.
• Take-Two shares rose about 5% in after-hours trading to $213.70 after the report.

The miss on bookings is the part of the report investors will argue about, but the market reaction says the GTA 6 story matters more than the quarter. The quarter ended September 30, before pre-orders for the biggest launch in the company's history had fully built up, and the guidance for the launch quarter is where Take-Two is asking to be judged.

GTA 5 Nears 235 Million Copies as the Franchise Nears 480 Million

The results also brought the usual update on the sales totals that underpin the GTA business. Grand Theft Auto V has now sold almost 235 million units — up five million in the quarter — and the Grand Theft Auto franchise as a whole has shipped nearly 480 million units. Those numbers are the reason Take-Two can talk about a historic year with a straight face: GTA 5 alone has sold more copies than almost any game in history, and its successor arrives with a built-in audience of hundreds of millions.

What Happens Next Before the November 19 Launch

The countdown is now measured in days. GTA 6 releases on November 19, 2026, for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, with preloading opening on November 10. Rockstar is also staging GTA 6: The Festival in Miami on November 21, two days after launch, with Travis Scott and Cardi B on the lineup. Between the pre-order numbers, the launch-weekend sales and the festival, the next fortnight will decide whether Take-Two's historic year claim holds up — and whether the reiterated $8 billion to $8.2 billion in net bookings is a floor or a ceiling.

For now, the message from the earnings call is simple: the quarter was soft, the guidance is unchanged, and the game everyone is actually waiting for is selling faster than anything Take-Two has seen before.

GTA 6 Pre-Orders: Frequently Asked Questions

Take-Two's last results before GTA 6 arrives tell two stories at once: a soft quarter behind it, and a launch in front of it that is already breaking the company's own records for demand. The next numbers that matter come after November 19.