GTA 6 is the ‘most pre-ordered game in PlayStation history’ despite the fact it’s locked at 30FPS, even on PS5 Pro
- Newsrooms
- 10
- Last 3 hours
- 2 reports
- Momentum
- Steady
1 in the 3 before
Rising
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 10 newsrooms by 8:09am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
Record breaker. It was always going to be big, but with a week until release, Rockstar has now confirmed that GTA 6 is the most pre-ordered digital game in PS Store history. Confirmation comes courtesy of the PS Blog , in a post from Sony’s Tim Turi. Read the full article on pushsquare.c
Destructoid didn’t include a summary, so this is Push Square’s, from its report on the same story.2
The bigger story: Grand Theft Auto
5 developments since Wed 4 Nov.
- GTA 6 Publisher Makes Official Statement On Grand Theft Auto 7
6 newsrooms. Linked by Grand Theft Auto, sale, physical, wild, load
- Grand Theft Auto VI Comes to XBOX One and XBOX Series X|S Through XBOX Cloud Gaming on November 19
7 newsrooms. Linked by Grand Theft, Theft Auto VI, come, november, coming
- Pre-load Grand Theft Auto VI on PS5 starting today
2 newsrooms. Linked by Grand Theft Auto, only, load
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You’re here10 newsrooms. Linked by GTA, Theft Auto, Grand Theft, order, official
The story so far
10 newsroomsRising- Reports
- 14
- Newsrooms and sources
- 10
- Last 3 hours
- 2
Rising: more reports in the last three hours than the three before (2 in the last three hours, 1 in the three before).
First with it: IGN, 32 min before anyone else.
Reported by 10 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 10
- Over
- 19.2 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 35 min
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2:56am AEDT | IGN | 1 |
| 3:28am AEDT | GamesRadar+ | 2 |
| 3:31am AEDT | Eurogamer | 3 |
| 3:53am AEDT | Destructoid | 4 |
| 4:34am AEDT | PC Gamer | 5 |
| 5:23am AEDT | Bloomberg | 6 |
| 6:00am AEDT | Push Square | 7 |
| 9:15am AEDT | Rolling Stone | 8 |
| 9:55am AEDT | Press Start | 9 |
| 10:07pm AEDT | Evening Standard | 10 |
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