GTA 6 is already giving PlayStation and Xbox consoles a a lot wanted gross sales enhance, at the very least within the UK, despite the fact that Rockstar Video games’ inevitable pile of money would not drop for one more couple of months.
GTA 6: An Prolonged Look was a reasonably large deal by itself. Nearly 4m individuals tuned in on livestreaming platforms to get their first take a look at Lucia and Jason doing crime and perhaps falling in/out of affection, overwhelming Twitch within the course of. Over 31m people watched the deep dive straight on Netflix, together with an extra 22m individuals who checked it out on YouTube (not accounting for re-uploads).
As reported on by The Sport Enterprise, all that pleasure fuelled a reasonably large gross sales week for PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S consoles. Within the UK, gross sales of the PS5 shot up by 33%, whereas Xbox Collection gross sales noticed a 34% enhance, in response to market analysis agency NielsonIQ.
The console makers are seemingly letting out loud sighs of aid – with a couple of extra held again for GTA 6’s November launch date, in fact. Spiralling prices and an ongoing part disaster has made promoting consoles just a little robust recently. PS5 UK console gross sales dropped dramatically this summer season and Xbox’s 2025 was its worst yr on document within the nation.
Newzoo’s Ronan Patrick tells The Sport Enterprise that the PS5 is “67% costlier” than it was at launch, adjusted for inflation, whereas Xbox consoles are double the value, so GTA 6 won’t have as monumental an influence as it could’ve if we weren’t residing by means of an AI-fuelled RAMageddon.
“We anticipate, due to [GTA] and Name of Obligation, to see an uptick within the set up base,” Patrick says. “Not as excessive as it could have been… Nothing notably huge.”
Curiously, regardless of not having a GTA 6 on the horizon, Nintendo Swap 2 gross sales additionally rose by a 3rd that very same week. Maybe would-be house owners have been getting forward of the Swap 2 worth improve.