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GTA6 has carried extraordinary pre-release expectations of 50 million copies sold on day one, but on 5channel, users have been buzzing about the fact that it’s sitting at just #44 on Amazon’s US ranking — the game’s home market, no less. In the thread, alongside skepticism that the target can be hit, posters pointed to the packaged version containing not a disc but a download code that expires 120 days after release, as well as sluggish PS5 sales overall, as possible factors. Meanwhile, opinions split over whether the ranking in question was limited to PS5 or covered the whole site, and the thread never reached a consensus.
What people said
Well, it's an unrealistic number no matter how you look at it, but even setting that aside, #44 is just brutal
At the end of the day, a huge chunk of GTA's sales come from the US
If the code at least didn't expire it'd be one thing, but since it does, it's basically a ticking time bomb
Way too scary to stock if it turns out unpopular and doesn't sell
Why, 'Rest-of-World-land,' obviously 😤 (mocking how sales outside the big markets get vaguely lumped into 'everywhere else')
GTA5 could get handed out dirt cheap because it already sold at full price and recouped its dev costs first
GTA6 needs to move tens of millions at full price too, or it's in trouble
Pretty seriously, I think it's getting swept up in the whole PS5-dropping-discs controversy and taking the hit for it
With GTA6, what's inside the box isn't a disc — it's a paper card with a code that expires 120 days after release
Not from purchase, mind you
From release
Ah, I see — anti-scalping measure maybe?
https://imgur.com/kZU7fbJ.jpeg
Why post some European country's #1 ranking in a thread about US Amazon?
Flopping in both Japan and America at once has to sting
Japan is underperforming on a whole different level
It's stuck in double digits on the download charts…
I don't think Xbox was affected, at least
Yeah, that's down to Japan's Payment Services Act
For anyone buying it right now, the expiration date is irrelevant anyway —
it's the paper-ticket format itself that people just don't like
They'd better get the PC version out soon
Wasn't there a leak that they scrapped the PC release?
Gives the impression PS5 pre-orders must be really weak
That one [FF] fell flat even after ports to PC and Xbox — still stuck at the same 3 million initial shipment/download figure
Monster Hunter launched day-and-date on PC too, but only had a strong opening with no legs
Isn't this just down to the games themselves not being that good?
Capcom: 'The Switch 2 version of Onimusha isn't selling either…💦'
Sorry, it's #7 on the store in North America too…
That's way too weak
Don't call it weak
They spent 8 years on this
Let's play spot-the-difference
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51kKmEy0QSL._SX342_SY445_QL70_FMwebp_.jpg
That's North America
So it's still #1 after all, lol
That's #1 only within the PS5-exclusive category, though
How long are you gonna keep running from reality?
Even filtered down to just the PS ranking it shows like this, so they're cropping the image so you can't tell only PS-related products are listed below it — making sure nothing but the #1 spot is visible
Background and Key Points of This Topic
The ‘day-one 50 million copies’ figure attached to GTA6 is a fan expectation based on predecessor GTA5’s track record of selling over 190 million copies to date — it is not an officially announced sales target. Likewise, the much-discussed ‘#44’ ranking is just a single snapshot of Amazon’s US pre-order chart before launch, not a reflection of actual post-release sales. The thread’s disagreement stemmed from differing interpretations of whether the ranking referred to the PS5-exclusive category or the site-wide chart — since how a screenshot is cropped can make the game look like either ‘#1’ or ‘#44,’ the confusion is understandable. The packaged version also uses a download code that expires 120 days after release instead of a disc, a feature unique to this title; some see it as an anti-scalping measure, while others worry about its impact on the used-game market and resale value. There were also claims that the PS5 hardware itself is losing momentum, but this remains speculation within the thread and is not backed by any evidence.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “[Bad News] GTA6, Expected to Sell 50 Million Copies, Currently Ranked #44 on the Real Deal US Amazonwww”.
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