Sensor Tower estimates 7.71 million GTA 6 pre-orders and $751 million, 74% on PS5, Kotaku reports

Data firm Sensor Tower estimated that GTA 6 had sold 7.71 million copies through pre-orders alone, Kotaku reported on November 4, 2026, after the firm updated its sales tracker. That is a third-party estimate. Take-Two has not given a pre-order number.

Kotaku said the figure comes to an estimated $751 million in revenue. Sensor Tower's split, as Kotaku relayed it, was 5.74 million copies on PS5 and 1.97 million on Xbox Series X|S, or roughly 74% against 26%. Kotaku did not say which countries or stores the tracker covers. Sensor Tower's October 13 estimate, covered in our earlier story, was for US digital pre-orders.

Kotaku wrote that Sensor Tower's trend line shows pre-orders picking up after the extended gameplay reveal on Netflix. It suggested Sony's marketing campaign for the game and the lower price of a base PS5 may have helped PlayStation's share, but those are Kotaku's own readings, not anything Sensor Tower or Sony said.

For scale, Kotaku compared the number with Cyberpunk 2077, which it said reportedly had around 8 million pre-orders before its 2020 launch. It also cited the financial firm Piper Sandler, which expects 45 million sales in the launch window. That is an analyst forecast, not a result.

The new total is up from the October 13 estimate of about 6.08 million pre-orders and $594 million, with the same 74% PlayStation share. Pre-order tracking relies on modelled data, so treat all of these totals as rough. GTA 6 launches on November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.