10 days out from the release of GTA 6, Strauss Zelnick tells me he’s feeling “optimistic.” It might be the understatement of the century. Reporting its second quarter fiscal year 2027 results tonight, Take-Two said preorders for Rockstar’s next game are tracking “far in excess” of the company’s initial expectations. “We know that the numbers will speak for themselves soon enough,” the Rockstar parent company added.

Or, as Zelnick put it to me during a phone interview, “I'm looking forward to the launch.”

GTA 6 is expected to be the biggest entertainment launch of all time, surpassing any movie or video game before it in terms of sales and money made. There are concerns it might not just crash the PlayStation Store, but jam up the internet, given so many millions across the world are expected to download the whopping 212GB that make up Rockstar’s surefire hit.

Still, GTA 6, like all video games these days, is beset by threats from all sides. The recent explosion in AI-fueled game clones and PS5 jailbreaks has raised the chances of GTA 6 turning up on PC before Rockstar has had a chance to release it officially. But what can Take-Two do about it?

Meanwhile, all eyes are on Rockstar to see what happens after GTA 6 comes out, after its developers recently insisted its next game won’t take another eight years to make. Yes, it really has been eight years since Red Dead Redemption 2 came out.

In the interview below, we touch on all these topics and more, joke about yet another potential GTA 6 delay, and learn that GTA 6 is so popular it might have even caused sales of Take-Two’s own NBA 2K27 to miss expectations.

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