Take-Two Interactive, which owns Rockstar Games, expects 8.0 to 8.2 billion dollars in net bookings in its fiscal year 2027, which runs from April 2026 to March 2027. GTA 6 comes out on November 19, in the middle of that year, and the company names it as the reason.
What the reports say
The outlook first appeared in Take-Two’s report of May 21, 2026, filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Chief executive Strauss Zelnick wrote that fiscal 2027 would “establish new record levels of operating performance driven by the November 19th launch of Grand Theft Auto VI.”
On August 7, with the first quarter’s results, Take-Two kept the numbers. Zelnick pointed to the “excitement around the November 19th launch” and reiterated the 8.0 to 8.2 billion outlook.
The numbers
- Net bookings, fiscal 2027 outlook: 8.0 to 8.2 billion dollars
- GAAP net revenue, fiscal 2027 outlook: 7.9 to 8.1 billion dollars
- Net bookings, fiscal 2026 (April 2025 to March 2026): 6.72 billion dollars, up 19%
- Recurrent consumer spending, fiscal 2026: 78% of net bookings
Net bookings are the sales Take-Two counts when a game or an in-game item is bought, before accounting spreads revenue over time. The forecast means roughly 1.3 to 1.5 billion dollars more than the previous year.
What the reports leave out
Take-Two doesn’t say how many copies of GTA 6 it expects to sell or how much of the forecast comes from it. Recurrent consumer spending, money from in-game purchases and online modes such as GTA Online and NBA 2K, made up 84% of first-quarter bookings. At the annual meeting on September 17 Zelnick called GTA 6 a single-player game at launch (more on that meeting), and Rockstar North’s Rob Nelson has said the single-player game has no microtransactions.
Take-Two will report the second quarter, July to September, in November, shortly before the release. It hasn’t announced the date.
