Take-Two says GTA 6 pre-orders are at unprecedented levels

Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of Rockstar Games, reported its fiscal second quarter results after the US market closed on November 9, 2026, ten days before GTA 6 releases. In the release, CEO Strauss Zelnick said: “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.”

In August, Take-Two’s prepared remarks called it an “exceptional start to pre-orders.” Neither statement is a number. The release gives no pre-order unit count, no pre-order revenue and no split by console. Our Take-Two and GTA 6 business page tracks what the company has and has not disclosed.

The release lists Grand Theft Auto VI in Take-Two's upcoming lineup on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S with a release date of November 19, 2026. PC is not listed. That matches the GTA 6 release date Rockstar has set.

For the quarter that ended September 30, 2026, Take-Two reported net bookings of $1.60 billion, down 18 percent from $1.96 billion a year earlier. In August the company had guided the quarter to $1.62 to $1.67 billion. Take-Two named the Grand Theft Auto series among its largest contributors to net bookings in the quarter, alongside NBA 2K. GAAP net revenue was $1.50 billion and the GAAP net loss was $54.0 million.

Take-Two reiterated its fiscal 2027 outlook for net bookings of $8.0 to $8.2 billion for the year ending March 31, 2027. It also gave its first outlook for the quarter ending December 31, 2026, the quarter that contains the GTA 6 release date: net bookings of $3.35 to $3.5 billion. Those figures cover every Take-Two game, not GTA 6 alone.

For buyers, nothing changes. The date, the platforms and the editions are the same, and digital pre-load is set for November 10. Take-Two held its conference call at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time on November 9; this story covers the written release and will be updated with anything GTA 6 specific Take-Two publishes from the call.