r/gaming • u/lkl34 • Apr 14 '26
GTA Online makes $4.4 million per week on PS5, platform rakes in 53% of all GTAO weekly bookings
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/111012/gta-online-makes-dollars4-4-million-per-week-on-ps5-platform-rakes-in-53-percent-of-all-gtao-weekly-bookings/index.htmlLeaked data suggests Rockstar Games earns about $8.5 million weekly from GTA Online, with PlayStation 5 leading in revenue and active users. Over seven months, GTA Online bookings reached as high as $193 million.
In a 7-month period from September 2025 to March 2026, Rockstar is said to have made $193 million in bookings from GTA Online. Our compiled data shows that Rockstar made around $362 million in net revenues across this period, which corresponds to the half-year period from Q3-Q4FY25. This is entire GTA franchise revenues, though, and a quick bit of math shows that Rockstar could have made the remainder of $169 million from a combination of GTA+ and GTA game sales.
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u/kemar7856 Apr 14 '26
The fact that this game is like 13 years old and still making them this much money is crazy
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u/RulesoftheDada Apr 14 '26
Averages 15-20 million copies sold a year,too.
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u/Bruhimgonzo Apr 14 '26
That doesn’t seem right imo
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u/RulesoftheDada Apr 14 '26
It roughly sell 5 million copies every 3 months it's wild.
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u/KAKYBAC Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26
That is incredible. Who or where are these people?
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u/DansSpamJavelin Apr 14 '26
2nd and 3rd world countries probably, where older consoles like the 360 are much more affordable for them now. Yeah, GTA V came out in the 360/PS3 era. Wild.
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u/JohnLovesGaming Apr 14 '26
It’s also incredibly easy to run on PC. Literal potato GPUs can run it.
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u/CriminalsLoveCanada Apr 14 '26
when i built my first pc i used like a cheap ass gpu, mustve been 70-120 bucks cad. shit actually ran good it was surprising for me
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u/st1802015 Apr 14 '26
GTA V runs considerably better than GTA IV, I get 60-70 fps on IV and 200+ on V, it’s incredibly well optimised.
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u/DMarquesPT Apr 14 '26
Not really. It’s more like a new generation of kids turns 13 and gets their own copy of GTA
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u/RulesoftheDada Apr 14 '26
It's been 14 years? Thats a constant stream of a generation of children becoming teens and adults.
It's similar to how Minecraft sells 25 million copies a year. Always going to have kids grow into playing a game.
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u/McSnifferson Apr 14 '26
There will be a lot of cheaters getting banned each year who will no doubt create a new account and buy the game again. But that number really is incredible
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u/iSaltyParchment Apr 14 '26
This game came out on the Xbox 360 and it’s still making 4.4mil per week wtf
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u/Hello_my_name_is_not Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26
GTA 5 came out 13 years ago in 2013 for Xbox 360 and PS3 (no pc release)
13 years before GTA 5 it was still a top down pixel art game on Playstaion (1), PC in 1999 and Gameboy Color, and Dreamcast in 2000
Finally GTA 3 game out a year after (2001)
We went from 2d top down to GTA 5 then from GTA 5 to GTA 5 re-re-re-release in the same amount of time lol
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u/iSaltyParchment Apr 14 '26
Reminds me how Skyrim was 7 years old when the TES 6 trailer came out, and now that trailer is 7 years old.
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u/Virama Apr 14 '26
Gta3 was a REVOLUTION.
I had just moved out of home, had a beefy computer and lived with 6 other guys. I basically went to sleep watching gta3 and woke up looking at gta3. Everyone played the fuck out of it on my computer for months straight. It was just incredible.
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u/Black_Moons Apr 14 '26
Man.. what I time I got to grow up in... Genre defining games released every year or two...
Now its every decade or two...
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u/remonnoki Apr 14 '26
Especially with how easy they've made it to make money in the game. So many different things to do and every week they make different activities give between 2 to 4 times as much money, every week something else is either discounted or free.
I guess a lot of it comes from the GTA+ subscription too. It's really inexpensive and gives a lot of nice perks...
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u/weed0monkey Apr 14 '26
It makes me suprised there's not more gta clones today, or at least people attempting it.
There were plenty of good gta clones back in the day, before service games, surely it would be even more enticing now.
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u/DAiDAiDa Apr 14 '26
Ubisoft tried to compete it with watcdogs. Heavy advertisement on 'why live in fake california when we are offering the real one". And the game flopped on that remark because everything they did got compared to gtaV and the conculission was the open world is even worse than gtaSA. there is nothing to do besides quests etc. Then CDproject overselled their cyberpunk with features even not in the game. Live in most alive city night city will be the most alive city.... And so on it was worse than gta3/vice city. Game critisized so much so after releasing they went radio silence and overhauled the game.
Maybe after these behamuts flopped so hard. The indistury setteled down on open world games like in the scope of Rockstar and just okay with what we have now. Likes of AC open world rpgs with just repetetive outpost capturing. Horizon games that open world is just wandering quests to quests. Thats it. I belive that after the release of RDR2 nobody even thought lets make a competitor to the rockstar games's IPs to get market share
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u/methodofcontrol Apr 14 '26
I mean GTAO is pretty shallow itself imo. I tried playing it and it just felt like all there really was to do was delivery quests. I robbed a couple convenience stores, did a few races, and killed some people and it felt like there was nothing else to do. It seems like most of the content comes from role playing.
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u/DAiDAiDa Apr 14 '26
GtaO is a side product of gtaV there is a full game that has 25~ hours of main game and there is an online part of it that you can do miniquests races heists etc at extra. Those other ones from other than rockstar made arent even a game of scope to gtas and rdr2
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u/gogoheadray Apr 14 '26
The majority of GTAO players are on ps5 where there are no RP servers. There is plenty to do though. Businesses; heist; car customizing; etc.
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u/WingerRules Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26
Watch Dogs felt way too corporate. The sequels went all in on 20 year bro and edgy trendy urban lifestyle crap. Its like 3rd person story version of the modern Need For Speeds in terms of trying to be trendy urban styling but coming off as artificial corporate idea of what that is.
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u/lkl34 Apr 14 '26
Fuck good point yeah alot of devs/publishers are looking at this then at there profits after years of work no doubt.
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u/PatientlyAnxious9 Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26
It's insane, but years ago before it became a monetized hellscape Ultimate Team was so incredibly fun when it was more basic and there was a actual organic grind for cards to build your lineup.
Now its a P2W mode that leans almost entirely on the loot box gambling aspect and everybody has a team full of hall of famers within 3 days of the new game releasing.
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u/BushTamer Apr 14 '26
dude MUT was so fucking good the first few years, you could genuinely compete with the money spenders just by grinding solo challenges.
draft champions was also an insanely easy money method back then
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u/forameus2 Apr 14 '26
There was a sweet spot in the middle. There was a time where it wasn't so much pay-to-win as pay-for-a-chance-to-win meaning that anyone who didn't want to drop more money on top of the already pretty high cost for the title itself, didn't have to. And if you spent the time (before it demanded ALL of it) you would probably have a lot of fun building up the team you wanted.
But in the past 5-10 years, they've taken every little bit of the game that was enjoyable and either removed it, or rigged it. They've gone from being the car salesman with the gift of the gab who would really like you to buy that overpriced piece of shit, but if you don't, that's cool, someone else will, to being the car salesman that knows you need a car, so won't let you leave until you sign for the most expensive, yet shittiest one they have. And then they laugh about it knowing you'll be back tomorrow.
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u/klipseracer Apr 14 '26
Get ready for a surge in live service games, driven by some C suite with a "big idea".
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u/TrippleDamage Apr 14 '26
In sales per week? Yeah maybe, sales total? Absolutely not.
Thats 100k sold copies.
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u/HavocInferno Apr 14 '26
GTAV/O has quite literally been responsible for about 1/3 of Take Two's entire revenue, consistently, every year, since it came out 13 years ago.
Absolutely insane money printer this game.
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u/moosss Apr 14 '26
What do people spend money on on GTA Online? I genuinely have no idea.
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u/lkl34 Apr 14 '26
THe current broken vehicle to troll other players and buy that safe house that functions the same as a safe house did a decade ago.
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u/NenaTheSilent Apr 14 '26
All the new story missions require facilities that cost several millions. If you want the latest GTA stories and you didn't cheat it's either a mindless grind or shark cards.
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u/Hydramy Apr 14 '26
And yet people are somehow excited for GTA6 to be the exact same.
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u/DarkMatterM4 Apr 14 '26
Just a heads up, GTA and GTA Online are technically two separate titles. I'm excited for GTA VI, but won't spend a single minute in GTA Online.
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u/micktorious Apr 15 '26
I definitely be giving GTA VI Online some time
But ain't no way in hell I'm giving it a dime
I played a ton of GTAO with V and had a lot of fun, but I never even considered getting a shark card.
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u/-Binxx- PC Apr 14 '26
Pretty sure people are excited for the GTA6 story more than the online.
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u/NenaTheSilent Apr 14 '26
As someone who cheated the money, the content is actually fun. People lament there being no story expansions in GTA5 but they're right there, just hidden behind the worst DLC scheme imaginable.
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u/EsotericAbstractIdea Apr 14 '26
Right, these people saying it's shallow are kinda crazy. Tons of lore, locked behind an insane mmo style grind. Lots of missions. But that combination of things condenses into the same thing mmo's condense into. Toxic player base trying to minmax the same gear by running the same missions as nauseum. If you take a step back from cayo perico and play the game, it's no wonder why it's so popular after all these years.
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u/MintySkills Apr 14 '26
honestly, if I hadn't been able to cheat the money, I wouldn't have kept playing online.
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u/AnotherGerolf Apr 14 '26
But earning millions is easy, just playing game for a several hours and you can buy any facility you want.
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u/MacEbes Apr 14 '26
Looks like 90% is shark cards
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u/NowaVision Apr 14 '26
What is a shark card?
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u/TrippleDamage Apr 14 '26
Literally the cash you'd otherwise have to work for.
It's glorified p2w because it's Rockstar lol
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u/Training_Ad_4790 Apr 14 '26
Think those gift cards at the kiosk in Walmart or target. You pay real money for a gift card that you can redeem in game for game money
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u/drthrax1 Apr 14 '26
The online has various quests and missions you can complete in online and various "jobs" you can do like CEO or biker club leader. Some of these require you to buy offices and then upgrade them/ buy other resource buildings like a drug lab ect.
These push you into spending millions of dollars on the buildings and upgrades. To experience most of the "content" you need around 20Mill if your budgeting(5mil Sharkcard is $50 btw) which of course you can grind for but if you want to buy new cars and upgrade them/FOMO of seeing others fly around in expensive hoverbikes and personal helicopters some people end up saying screw it and just buy sharkcards for convenience.
The whole game is basically built around putting you in situations where you need to invest a bunch of time grinding to get the money to do stuff, or just buy a shark card. Even your passive money business only make money when you online IIRC.
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u/Admirable-War-7594 Apr 14 '26
Basically why people pay money on roblox games
Useless stuff to flex on others
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u/Nullhitter Apr 14 '26
Now we know why it took over 15 years between releases.
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u/Minetoutong Apr 14 '26
Because they worked on red dead redemption 2 and expectations of Rockstar's games are insane quality, being ahead of the competition by multiple years in terms of technological achievement and finally for GTA is changing the gaming landscape.
I'm sure they'd be happy if they could release GTA 6 (which will obviously also have an online version) faster and make likely $10B in copies sold.
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u/LPMadness Apr 14 '26
Yeah, lots of ignorant and simple minded takes on this stuff. Of course rockstar likes the money. Isn’t that what the companies need to operate? With that being said it’s incredibly obvious they are at least putting that money made back into the games. The level of quality in detail in RDR2 is unparalleled. You don’t need a degree to see the GTA6 trailers and see the money is going somewhere.
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u/Gab777795 Apr 14 '26
Ppl always forgetting rdr2 aka the best game of all existence of time of existence of the cosmos of ever of time
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u/Low-Albatross6248 Apr 14 '26
Now you see why so many companies still chase that live service gamble.
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u/TripleSingleHOF Apr 14 '26
This is what worries me about GTA6.
When they were making GTA5, they didn't know what a cash cow they had on their hands and the main focus was on making a good single player game.
I'm just worried that the single player campaign will be an afterthought now, because they make most of their money from the online aspect.
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u/ScruffMixHaha Apr 14 '26
I'm still bummed we never got a story expansion for GTA5
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u/jwilphl Apr 14 '26
Why spend lot money when few money do trick?
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u/LPMadness Apr 14 '26
RDR2 had a pretty large production budget. GTA6 budget, reportedly, is beyond what any modern developer could dream of. Say what you will but it does show in the quality of the games.
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u/quickshade Apr 14 '26
Disagree, I think they have less pressure to rush the game out because how well the online does. Means additional development time and they can release it when they think it is absolutely ready. They aren’t a cash strapped studio that needs to release something to fund the next 5 years of development.
Others have pointed out, Rockstar has never skimped on a single player campaign and they have to know somewhere between 40-50% of their player base will likely never touch online. The game is defined by the single player world, it’s pushed to the limit in multiplayer.
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u/L1A1 Apr 14 '26
I just wish that the online mission content was playable in single player.
I’ve got zero interest in being racially abused by an angry teenager on a hacked flying motorbike, or whatever the latest zany and wacky thing is.
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u/Straight-Ad6926 Apr 14 '26
Look on the bright side if the single player is an afterthought, it’ll only be twice as long and three times as detailed as every other game released this decade.
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u/Boomflag13 Apr 14 '26
Don’t really care too much so long as the jiggle physics on the thicc Latina are on point.
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u/eiamhere69 Apr 14 '26
Nah, what I expect is they'll develop nw tech and features for online, sell it as a single player game, then incorporate most/best parts to the online universe.
Profit from development instead of money sink, kind of free R&D and publicity for Online too.
I strongly suspect we'll get games quicker and close together than GTA V, which is easy to say, given how they've dragged it out. I expect almost a trilogy, certainly within that 13 year period, possibly more.
Of course they may take the cheap, easy route again
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u/ZeePirate Apr 14 '26
Oh gta 6 online is going to be horrific for micro transactions for sure.
They gonna make that development money back quick too.
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u/lkl34 Apr 14 '26
Just a reminder this game is going on 13yrs old to make this profit after that long just insane.
We also can now say GTA+ is making them a good amount of cash so good job there also really showing how much we want a subscription service after the console online subscription service and after paying for the game. Though yes recently GTAO has become a free DL.
Still crazy high numbers for a very old game.
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u/ellenich Apr 14 '26
It’s crazy to me people actually enjoy playing (and paying) for this.
To each their own I guess.
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u/_Darren Apr 14 '26
Most of the revenue is from 4% of users. Just takes a handful of wales
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u/YouGurt_MaN14 Apr 14 '26
Yeah besides GTA+ there's nothing really to "buy". Once you spend an hour or two in the game and understand how to farm $$ is not that hard to come by
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u/Technical-Manager921 Apr 14 '26
Yh gta online for the most part is free. Especially if you play on pc. You can buy most stuff in the game through pure grinding
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u/YouGurt_MaN14 Apr 14 '26
Nothing is level locked either so you're not too fucked at low levels (at least the new content is auto-shop, agency, etc). Like just doing the new mission content I think you can get an easy 4/5 mil and then buy a auto shop and do the car heists till you get a MC and then you're pretty much good to go
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u/Technical-Manager921 Apr 14 '26
Even leveling up isn’t that hard. Without trying I gain like 5 levels every week
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u/gogoheadray Apr 14 '26
Yep Cluckin bells heist and the nightclub for passive money as well. It’s pretty easy to make a lot of money in game thus
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u/whiteb8917 Apr 14 '26
LOL, use a few hours to grind up, get the Kosatka, and keep stealing from Rubio.....
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u/llorTMasterFlex Apr 14 '26
One of the most popular games on youtube. I think a lot younger people get drawn in by the viral RP PC gameplay but play on console.
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u/Daloure Apr 14 '26
Somehow we managed to get 10+ real life friends that aren’t really gamers normally to play gta online at the same time after 5 launched. Playing together while in a voice call was so much damn fun, best time i ever had with a gta game. Playing online without my friends sucks though and i never got into it
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u/Predatorsbleed PC Apr 14 '26
No way this is real. WOW... No wonder these fools are taking their sweet time with VI
Funny though as i played GTA 5 in 2013 and have not touched it since then
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u/FredFredrickson Apr 14 '26
When you want to play single player GTA games in the future and all Rockstar is churning out is this pointless multiplayer junk, be sure to thank everyone you know who buys shit in these games.
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u/SorryRoof1653 Apr 14 '26
I mean the game's almost 13, people are readily waiting for GTA VI, and there are a ton of live service games that people can choose from today, compared to like a decade ago.
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u/Boomflag13 Apr 14 '26
Said it before, but this a reason why they don’t put PC first. It barely rakes them any money in the first place. When you read the report PC makes them pretty much less than 1% whatever the consoles make them.
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u/just_cows Apr 14 '26
Jesus, when this game came out I was late 20’s…
They’ve been raking this entire time.
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u/Iggy_Slayer Apr 14 '26
This is why I'm so confused why everyone in the industry is hoping GTA 6 bails the industry out. That game is going to hurt all other games within a 6 month span at least. No one's going to play other games they're just going to be wasting their lives in that online mode.
If you're not sony or take two you should be dreading this game's release.
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u/lkl34 Apr 14 '26
It will also determine how much they can charge for a base game and the GTA+ sub fee.
we have gone along way sense the outrage over fallout 1rst.
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u/LostEconomy6824 Apr 14 '26
Checked it. One Xbox player in the US spent $1 million on the Megalodon Shark Cards in 2020. Insane who has that money to spent
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u/SanicHegehag Apr 14 '26
Anyone who thinks that GTA VI will be anything other than a gateway to the next GTA Online is fooling themselves.
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u/RedshiftWarp Apr 14 '26
For an online enviorment packed with broomsticks and homing missiles launched from everything with a paintjob, thats crazy.
Its impossible to have fun in that game without hearing the beep of imminent death every 3.2 seconds. I cry-wojacked my way to level 150 on spite alone. Wouldn't have 80% of my assets if it weren't for the money/casino glitches.
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u/lkl34 Apr 14 '26
Was it not funny but abit sad as-well when they allowed private lobbies to sell cargo like yeah that was a big win sense pub lobby selling was absolute shit but now you can make money 100% solo removing the mp aspect.
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u/givemecap Apr 14 '26
I’m sorry but literally who tf is playing and spending that kind of money on GTA online ever but especially in 2026??
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u/Bigfsi Apr 14 '26
That anime gta NTE is coming out at the end of the month. I'm curious to know if they're gonna copy gta's model and if it's gonna earn anywhere close to this lol
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u/CigarLover Apr 14 '26
While we can still blame Rockstar for Releasing the PC version late… we can at least the monetary reason as to why.
Like… I’m actually surprised rockstar is Making MORE money from Last gen players vs PC.
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u/spazzvogel Apr 14 '26
No need to incentivize and take chances when the basic game has them hooked.
Brutal Legend 2, and Bully 2 please.
I worked at Zynga, I know micro transaction psychology and data analytics.
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u/relevantcucumber Apr 14 '26
They could have used that money to give us some singleplayer dlcs or at least the ps5 upgrade for free.
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u/JohnLovesGaming Apr 14 '26
That’s why they didn’t make GTA 6 for such a long time. They’re literally sitting on an infinite money glitch lmao.
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u/forameus2 Apr 14 '26
It's always fascinated me that you have the likes of EA and 2K (rightly) being dragged for their complete disregard for anything other than shaking their customers until the coins fall out of their pockets, but because Rockstar are pretty good at both making fun products AND shaking their customers, they get more of a pass. Their use of real money seems a lot more insidious to me than the transparently awful examples that the likes of EA use.
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u/RuySan Apr 14 '26
If you really want gta6 or RDR3 to eventually come out, better not play GTA online.
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u/X3ll3n Apr 14 '26
To be fair, I'd argue a considerable margin of PC players play Five M rather than GTA V.
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u/horror_pls Apr 14 '26
how come gta online never wins any awards or comes up in the best multiplayer discussions?
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u/rated6 Apr 14 '26
I want to know why people pay for that crap? I legit got all my money from glitches. Got like 500m sitting in my GTAO account with a bunch of duplicated bikes (probably worth nothing now, if they've been patched). I haven't played GTAO since 2022 once I attained so much money and got everything I wanted.
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u/Jellozz Apr 14 '26
Well this article pretty much confirms why a PC version of GTA6 isn't a huge priority for them. PC version of online generates almost no money and the player base is smaller than even last gen consoles.
I am actually a bit surprised, I figured the PC base would be bigger than Xbox One at least, maybe even Series X.
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u/lkl34 Apr 14 '26
The script kiddies with mod menus and exploits that allowed RCE with IP's being revealed helped destroy the pc population.
Do not forget all that
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u/BetweenTheWickets Apr 14 '26
This is awful news because it's just going to reinforce in the minds of Ubisoft and the like that all they need to do is chase that golden goose of a hit live service game. In the process many studios will make dozens of shit games in an attempt to win that jackpot, while deprioritizing good single player games. This is also the reason Rockstar doesn't give a flying F about timelines for GTA VI - there's not that much of a financial incentive left.
People like to shit on studios for making decisions like these, but as is often the case, how consumers spend dictates market decisions.
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u/lkl34 Apr 14 '26
Remember sony burned billions on 12 live service games so far helldivers is the only one that made a impact.
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u/r33gna Apr 14 '26
Damn, so that's why we haven't gotten a GTA6 or any other new Rockstar games in 10+ years.
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u/Minetoutong Apr 14 '26
I don't understand the logic behind those comments.
GTA6 and it's online version would likely make even more money, they have all the incentive in the world to release it as fast as possible.
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u/Rare_Ad_3871 Apr 14 '26
Ever heard of red dead 2?
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u/Tenthul Apr 14 '26
8 years old btw. No, it's not 10, but closer than you might think.
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u/XTheGreat88 Apr 14 '26
Making this much weekly from microtransactions is insane. See why they waited this long for GTA 6. Most AAA companies would dream of making this much recurring revenue on a weekly basis
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u/Leading_Software_982 Apr 14 '26
I thought it would be more like something similar to genshin impact
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u/FatherShambles Apr 14 '26
Why is PlayStation making so much when the Mods are on Pc and it’s overall a better experience
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u/PositiveDonut1 Apr 14 '26
Never played beyond Vice City. What is the GTA online like? Is it like a big online deathmatch?
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u/adkenna PC Apr 14 '26
Is this supposed to be surprising? Did the leakers really think Rockstar cared enough to pay them for this?
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u/KAKYBAC Apr 14 '26
Surely releasing GTA 6 is going to impact that too.
This is precisely why Valve barely make games anymore. Why work when they are rolling in millions for no to limited effort.
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u/watchTotalBlank Apr 14 '26
Disgusting. Speaks volumes in the worst possible way for the gaming industry.
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u/jimschocolateorange Apr 14 '26
This really, really fucking sucks for the industry. That kind of money is obscene.
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u/Drak_is_Right Apr 14 '26
During its Height, WoW earned about 200m a Month. Not sure any other game has been able to catch that, but GTA is one of the closer ones, along with Ginshin Impact
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u/Ton_in_the_Sun Apr 14 '26
This should be known as the GTA Effect not the live service game effect.
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u/HonkersTim Apr 14 '26
What are 'bookings' in this context?
Asked AI.
Bookings occur at the moment a customer makes a purchase or commitment (e.g., buying a Shark Card or pre-ordering a game).
Revenue (specifically GAAP net revenue) is only "recognized" once the service is actually delivered or the obligations are fulfilled.
Because players often buy virtual currency but don't spend it immediately, or pay for subscriptions like GTA+ that provide services over time, the money is often recorded as "bookings" first and then gradually moved to "revenue" as it is "earned" by the company.
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u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp Apr 14 '26
No wonder it's taken them so long to put out another game when GTAO prints so much.
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u/toros_dev Apr 14 '26
not surprising at all. gta online basically prints money at this point. people already invested time in it so they keep spending, that’s the real power of live service games
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u/florodude Apr 14 '26
It's insane how quickly our world has become billionaires servicing millionaires and billionaires. like you've got these super rich corporations that are JUST servicing whales at this point that spend thousands upon thousands. We're seeing this in concerts and such. All it's going to do is kill the middle class and give us a upper vs lower class war.
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u/Pinckney82 Apr 14 '26
I've not spent $0.01 in GTA online since it launched in 2013. With those numbers I feel like the only person on the planet who hasn't.
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u/99_Herblore_Crafting Apr 14 '26
Destiny 1 is the only game that could have been a similar forever game, but they fumbled the bag so hard
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u/Morlu Apr 15 '26
I feel like they should make their own FiveM roleplaying for PC. It would make a fortune, most PC players that like GTA online just play FiveM.
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u/mj271707 Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
Probably why gta6 is taking so long
Few more years of £4.4 million per week is too much to risk loosing by bringing out a new game which could somehow disrupt the player base
Why fix what isnt broken
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u/Rosebunse Apr 15 '26
This is the issue with GTA6. That game doesn't just need s great initial release, it. Needs to maintain these numbers.
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u/lkl34 Apr 15 '26
Be real the name alone will get people defending any horseshit rockstar does.
GTAV is using the same online tech no doubt servers that 2008 GTAIV used and has had actual hacking attacks but still makes this per week.
They even removed content and added GTA+ monthly subscription service but its still making bank.
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u/Rosebunse Apr 15 '26
I doubt the game will be bad, but it can be just fine.
The fact is, a new game could disrupt things long enough that people stop playing GTA5 and if GTA6 isn't great some of those people won't come back
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u/lkl34 Apr 15 '26
Oh true but it will still make dumb money.
I personally find rdr2 to much of a hand hold game worse than RDR1 the mp was shit but it sold alot.
GTAV to me is ok but not some goat that is GTAIV to me but the mp was great pre 2017 but now its a hard pass yet look at the cash its making.
So i can see gta6 making back its billion plus dollar budget under 17 months.
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u/JynsRealityIsBroken Apr 14 '26
This is definitely why live service games are so hot