It isn’t magic mind science to recommend GTA 6 goes to be massive, however one funding agency has steered it will be massive to the tune of $7.6bn in simply two months, whereas additionally securing the accolade of “largest gaming launch of all time.”
That is in response to Josh Chapman, managing companion at “thesis pushed funding agency” Konvoy Ventures (thanks GameSpot). Chapman shared his predictions over on LinkedIn, suggesting GTA 6 would be the “largest gaming launch of all time, shattering data of copies bought and income generated inside virtually each time frame”.
Extra particularly, Chapman believes Grand Theft Auto 6 will generate $7.6bn USD in income within the first 60 days of its launch, and that it will recoup its improvement prices in underneath a month. It is price noting, nevertheless, all that is based mostly on sure unconfirmed assumptions. Chapman’s maths assumes the base model of GTA 6 will value $80 (neither Rockstar nor writer Take-Two Interactive have introduced a worth but, however there’s actually precedent), and his predictions are additionally based mostly on a speculative improvement funds of $2bn – a determine that is lengthy been rumoured, however by no means really confirmed.
Issues then veer away from the monetary to the maybe slightly fanciful, with Chapman calling GTA 6 the ‘subsequent user-generated platform’. Extra particularly, he predicts it will “have a UGC part that features creator payouts for server hosts, mod creators, and extra (mimicking the creator economics of [Fortnite] and Roblox)”, alongside “200-person lobbies [with] increased threat/reward dynamics the place you may raid and steal gadgets from gamers extra simply.”
None of that is significantly far-fetched, in fact, however neither is it supported by any actual proof, however given Chapman notes, “Ultimately, we’re simply players who cannot wait to see this title launched”, there’s perhaps a little bit of room for some enthusiastic wishful considering.
GTA 6 is at present anticipated to launch for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X/S on twenty sixth Could subsequent yr, following its not precisely sudden delay in Could. And there is little doubt it will be massive; as Take-Two confirmed earlier this yr, GTA 5 has now bought an astonishing 210m copies since its launch 12 years in the past, so it is in all probability not unreasonable to imagine its massively anticipated sequel will handle to try this after which some.
