You already know GTA 6? That small recreation that is set to return out later this yr and undoubtedly hasn’t had folks on the web going a bit wild as they attempt to predict when it would get a second trailer? Properly, it is projected to make an obscene amount of money when it arrives.
Yup, in case it wasn’t apparent, folks like me and bizarre moon theorists aren’t the one of us who’re very excited to lastly play the mega-blockbuster – individuals who’re set to reap a few of its income undoubtedly might be too.
In line with evaluation by video games business consulting agency DFC Intelligence, which options in a report by the Monetary Instances, GTA 6 is ready to drag in over $1 billion in pre-orders, as everybody and their mum fails to excercise any self-control in terms of handing the contents of the wallets over to Lucia and Jason.
That is not all both, with the agency predicting that the sport will make over $3.2 billion in income throughout its first twelve months on sale, which the report cites as doubling GTA 5‘s mark for a similar interval. That recreation, in case you forgot, reached $1 billion in gross sales in simply three days – sooner than any leisure launch in historical past, a report it nonetheless holds.
It is okay, although, in feedback to the FT, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick’s being very all the way down to Earth about the entire thing, saying: “I by no means declare victory earlier than it happens. That mentioned, I believe Rockstar Video games will as soon as once more ship one thing completely phenomenal… Definitely the anticipation is excessive.”
The report estimates GTA 6’s improvement prices to run “from the excessive a whole lot of tens of millions to as a lot as $2 billion”, so the numbers are large throughout right here, and the sport’s actually beneath strain to ship the form of obscene income numbers being forecasted.
Extra strain comes from the truth that it seemingly is not simply Rockstar hoping that GTA 6 is a rising tide of money, with different ships all through an business that is laid off far too many employees over the previous few years little question hoping they’re going to be raised by it – console makers, for instance.
Do you assume GTA 6 will dwell as much as these record-smashing projections – and the overall hype? Tell us under!