Since there are more PS5s out there than Xbox Series X|S consoles, it stands to reason that more people have pre-ordered GTA 6 on PlayStation than they have on Xbox. However, a report this week claiming GTA 6 pre-orders are heavily skewed in PlayStation’s favor rubbed some at Xbox the wrong way, so much so that the studio’s CSO has publicly responded.
Claims that GTA 6 pre-orders are skewed in the PS5’s favor were part of a wider report Tom Warren published at The Verge covering this week’s Xbox “reset”. Xbox CSO Matthew Ball focused in on the GTA 6 part of that report, replying to Warren on Twitter to make it clear that he and everyone at Xbox are “very happy” with the platform’s GTA 6 numbers.
“The title is breaking records for Xbox, we expect even more records will be broken throughout the fall,” Ball writes in a reply to Warren’s report. “Our internal analysis shows our share of pre-orders to be matching our share of the console market.”
Ball probably should have stopped at the breaking records part, as it’s the second half of his tweet that’s now getting the most attention. Warren has responded asking exactly what Xbox’s share of the console market looks like. At the time of typing this, Ball has not replied to that tweet.
Assuming Ball is simply referring to how many Series X|S consoles have been sold compared to PS5s, then Xbox’s current share of the console market - at least when it comes to consoles on which you’ll be able to play GTA 6 at launch - is just shy of 27%.
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