GTA 6 will double GTA 5 and make $3.2 billion in its first year, analysts say – "The pent-up demand is greater than anything we’ve seen before”

GTA 6 reveal trailer screenshot showing a young blonde woman standing near a sunny rooftop pool, wearing a white and gold bikini.

The impending release of GTA 6 could see developer Rockstar outdo the already record-setting sales of GTA 5 with over $3 billion in revenue in its first year and some $1 billion from pre-orders alone, analysts at DFC Intelligence predict, with other experts calling the hunger for the game virtually peerless.

Speaking with the Financial Times (as VGC spotted), DFC analysts agree that GTA 6, the long-awaited sequel to the best-selling console and PC-only game of all time, will end up being the biggest entertainment launch of the year, and indeed ever. The group predicts upwards of $3.2 billion in revenue in the game's first year, or double what GTA 5 managed within the same period. (GTA 5, with GTA Online included, has generated over $8 billion total by most estimates.)