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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Entertainment
Niloy Chakrabarti

No GTA 6 Christmas Discount Planned Despite Record Preorders: Take-Two CEO Teases Extended Reveal

Gamers are aggressively pre-ordering the GTA 6 $99.99 premium edition. (Credit: Rockstar Games/Rockstar Games)

Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6) is already breaking expectations before it has even launched. Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick has revealed that GTA 6 pre-orders have vastly exceeded the company's internal forecasts, offering the clearest indication yet of just how much demand has built up around Rockstar Games' next blockbuster video game.

The company opened GTA 6 pre-orders on 25th June, ahead of the game's scheduled release on 19th November. While Zelnick declined to provide an actual sales figure, he recently said during an interview with CNBC that the response is 'exceptional', which is significant because Take-Two is deliberately refusing to treat early pre-orders as a guarantee of launch-day success.

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