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Kyuu said:
BraLoD said:

There are people talking about 80M here too, but sure, 70M is impossible too without PC until 2027 ends.

GTA V sales picked up tremendously post covid, massive discounts and people triple or quadruple diping, when it was available now on 7 platforms. It was selling 10M a year from 2016 to 2017, it is selling 20M a year since PS5 launched and those kicked it.

That's what I've always been saying, the attach rate people expect based on sales solely on PS5 and XBS, the only two platforms it has always been announced for, is not something GTA V was able to pull so quick, GTA VI will simply run out of potential customers to reach those numbers so fast as people expect.

My first response to someone in this thread is about the game being able to reach 100M+ sales once a PC version is available and enough time has passed and 10th is possibly available.

GTA VI will have more frontloaded sales than V, it seems pretty clear people are really jumping into it, but the install base difference between GTA V and GTA VI is so, so big that expecting it to pull in 1 year numbers GTA V pulled 3 to 4 years when it only have PS5 and XBS install base to do it sounds like way too much of a reach, and that people don't understand that GTA V sells so much because it has had many re-releases and so much repeat sales to the same customer over the years.

GTA VI is a more desired producted now than GTA V ever was, but it won't just sell to everyone that has a PS5 and XBS within a single year. I'm not buying it myself until it has an actual physical media and has substantial discounts.

I think we're starting to go in circles but to keep it simple, you're stretching the meaning of impossible and perhaps GTA6 will prove it, we'll see. It's pretty obvious to me that a day 1 PC release on Nov 2026 isn't required for 70 million to be theoretically achievable. For anyone expecting 70 million on consoles alone (prior to the RAM/NAND crisis), they were probably 20~ million too positive but I still wouldn't label it "impossible". GTA6 is a fundamentally different beast.

Yeah we are going in circles, but I'm just responding to what I'm quoted about.