Take-Two says GTA 6 pre-orders have reached unprecedented levels

Take-Two Interactive, the owner of Rockstar Games, said on Monday, November 9, 2026, that GTA 6 pre-orders are still climbing to record territory, with chief executive Strauss Zelnick stating that “The launch of Grand Theft Auto VI is ten days away and, with pre-orders continuing to reach unprecedented levels,” the company expects “to deliver an historic year”. The comments came with Take-Two’s results for the three months to September 30, published a day before digital pre-loading opened on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.

Take-Two gave no pre-order figure, so “unprecedented” can’t be measured against GTA V or any other launch from the statement alone. What the company did put in numbers is how much of its year now rests on November 19, and for players in Nigeria who are clearing space on their consoles this week, the results restate that date with no sign of movement.

More than $3 billion is riding on the GTA 6 launch quarter

In its official earnings release, Take-Two forecast net bookings of $3.35 billion to $3.5 billion for October to December, the quarter that includes GTA 6’s release. That’s more than double the $1.60 billion it booked between July and September, a figure that was itself 18% lower than the $1.96 billion of the same period last year.

The company kept its full-year forecast at $8 billion to $8.2 billion in net bookings for the twelve months to March 2027, rather than raising it, and reported a net loss of $54.0 million for the latest quarter. Zelnick said Take-Two was confident it could build on the year by releasing new hits and choosing to “expand our geographic footprint”, without naming any new markets.

The games keeping Take-Two busy until Vice City opens

The release lists the titles that brought in the most money last quarter, and several of them are already on Nigerian phones and consoles. “NBA 2K” led the list alongside the Grand Theft Auto series, followed by mobile games such as “Toon Blast”, “Match Factory!”, “Empires & Puzzles”, “Words With Friends”, “Color Block Jam” and “Zynga Poker”, plus the “Borderlands”, “Red Dead Redemption” and “WWE 2K” series.

Beyond GTA 6, Take-Two named “Top Goal” and “CSR 3” for iOS and Android, “PGA TOUR 2K27” and “WWE 2K27”, a new “BioShock”, “Project ETHOS” and Ghost Story Games’ “Judas” as upcoming releases, none of them with a firm date. For mobile players, “Top Goal” and “CSR 3” are the two to watch, since they’re the only upcoming titles on the list built for phones.

What heavy pre-orders mean for Nigerian players on launch night

Digital buyers in Nigeria could start the pre-load from midnight on PS5 and 1am on Xbox today, as NaijaGamer explained when Rockstar moved the pre-load to November 10 and put the download at up to 212GB. With demand this strong, starting that download early rather than leaving it until the final weekend gives a slower connection the most room to finish before November 19, especially on a line that drops speed in the evening.

Players who haven’t bought yet still have time, and Rockstar’s own pre-load notice says pre-orders remain open. The naira cost, the editions and the code-in-box physical copy are covered in NaijaGamer’s guide to GTA 6’s price and pre-orders in Nigeria, while the latest launch gallery shows some of the locations players will be able to visit. Take-Two’s next quarterly update, covering the launch itself, will be the first time the company has to put a number on the demand it is describing as unprecedented.