After More Than a Decade of Waiting, ‘GTA VI’ Is Finally Around the Corner
It’s the end of an era for marveling at all the stuff we got before GTA VI. The game is officially, truly, really, finally something people can pay actual money for. And it’s bound to be a biggie. Grand Theft Auto VI is poised to be the single highest-grossing entertainment property of all time. That would be a feat, but not one without precedent for the series. Its predecessor, GTA V, sold $1 billion worth of copies in the first three days after launch and has since shipped 230 million copies. Adding on the money generated by the microtransactions players pay out in Grand Theft Auto Online, the game has garnered its publisher, Rockstar, and parent company Take Two Interactive nearly $10 billion in the 13 years since it was released. That might all be dwarfed by the sequel. The game is scheduled to release on November 19, but preorders start today. The standard edition of the game costs $80—the highest base price for a video game on console ever. On top of that, there …
