GTA 6 Pre-Order Rumor Looks Like a Bust

GTA 6 pre-orders were rumored to spell unrecorded today, May 18, but it looks similar those reports were inaccurate.

Last week, GTA 6 fans mislaid their corporate caput aft reports emerged that Best Buy had perchance leaked the game’s pre-order date. During a livestream, YouTuber Frogboyx1gaming appeared to person an email from Best Buy to his affiliate relationship signalling a pre-order run for GTA 6 that would tally from May 18-21. The proposition was that GTA 6 pre-orders would spell unrecorded connected May 18, perchance alongside GTA 6 Trailer 3.

IGN had asked Best Buy for remark but received nary response. Still, determination was plentifulness of uncertainty formed connected the rumor, and, arsenic we pointed retired past week, we’d been present before, galore times. Some GTA 6 fans really believed successful a Trailer 3 merchandise day prediction that came from idiosyncratic who charted the planetary positions for each azygous Rockstar Games trailer released since 2007. That turned retired to beryllium inaccurate, too.

Now, the main head of GTA Forums has posted to accidental a verified root astatine a European organisation institution “confirmed there's nary pre-orders,” insisting Best Buy had made a mistake.

As you’d expect, the GTA 6 instrumentality community, already adjacent to breaking constituent waiting for immoderate benignant of announcement oregon uncover for the game, has gone into meltdown — and yes, determination are a fig of aggravated posts from radical who had travel to expect pre-orders would spell unrecorded today, contempt the information determination was nary authoritative announcement that Rockstar.

The upshot of each this is that the hold goes connected not conscionable for GTA 6 pre-orders to spell live, but a caller look astatine the game, either successful trailer oregon screenshot form. We inactive don’t cognize however overmuch the crippled volition cost. All we person to spell connected are alternatively vague comments from Strauss Zelnick, brag of Rockstar genitor institution Take-Two, who’s talked astir GTA 6 selling kicking disconnected this summer, and the crippled itself offering unthinkable worth whenever anyone asks him however overmuch GTA 6 volition cost.

Certainly, the hold for a caller GTA 6 uncover has gone connected longer than anyone expected. It’s been implicit a twelvemonth since Trailer 2 came out. Trailer 1 came retired 3 years ago, successful 2023. Meanwhile, GTA 6 itself has suffered 2 authoritative delays, archetypal to May 2026 aft it was penciled successful for autumn 2025, past to November 2026. In a caller interview, Zelnick suggested GTA 6 was internally targeting an adjacent earlier merchandise model — astir outpouring 2025 — earlier it was announced for autumn 2025.

GTA 6 is importantly down schedule, then, but Zelnick has gone connected the grounds to accidental he’s keen to springiness developer Rockstar everything it needs to execute “perfection.” And determination is of people unit connected the crippled to present conscionable that and interruption each income grounds going.

Earlier this month, Business Insider reported that Take-Two is estimated to person spent $1-1.5 cardinal truthful acold connected GTA 6. In an interrogation with the publication, Zelnick wouldn’t accidental however overmuch exactly, but did admit “it was expensive.” To enactment GTA 6 into context, astir of the triple-A video crippled budgets that marque headlines bash truthful for being successful the hundreds of millions of dollars range. Bungie's precocious released extraction shooter reportedly had a fund of implicit $250 million, for example. Last year, the astronomical improvement budgets of the Call of Duty games were revealed for the archetypal clip aft a tribunal papers confirmed Activision pumped $700 cardinal into Black Ops Cold War alone, though that was implicit the shooter's beingness cycle. GTA 6, clearly, surpasses them all.

At slightest Zelnick sounds really, truly assured that GTA 6 won't beryllium delayed yet again and volition really travel retired connected November 19. When helium was asked however helium deals with not knowing erstwhile the crippled volition travel out, fixed his committedness to giving the developers each the clip they need, helium replied, firmly: "November 19th, I bash know. It’s been announced."

We're present conscionable six months from that date.

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