{"id":96188,"date":"2026-10-28T23:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=96188"},"modified":"2026-10-28T23:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:55:02","slug":"if-gta-6-beats-football-on-thanksgiving-thats-a-win-ea-founder-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=96188","title":{"rendered":"If GTA 6 Beats Football On Thanksgiving, That\u2019s A Win, EA Founder Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GTA6New-Large.jpeg?w=300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rockstar&#8217;s GTA 6 is expected to be a giant success commercially, but just how big does the game need to be to actually be successful following a decade of development and perhaps one of the biggest development budgets ever? We don&#8217;t know, because Take-Two doesn&#8217;t disclose that kind of information, but EA founder Bing Gordon has his own thoughts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the Sozzi Unleashed show, Gordon said it would be &#8220;mind-blowing&#8221; if GTA 6 can reach 75 million copies sold. How did he arrive at that number? Gordon said he was basing this on a number&#8211;750 million&#8211;a figure he thought a previous GTA 6 trailer reached. If GTA 6 can sell 10% of that, or 75 million copies, that would be a success, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gordon was referencing &#8220;the preview video,&#8221; which might have been the GTA 6 Extended Look, which premiered on Netflix and then landed on YouTube. No single video for GTA 6 has 750 million views, but it&#8217;s not a stretch to think GTA 6 videos distributed everywhere on the internet have reached that number collectively. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GTA 6 - How Criminal Profiles Could Change Grand Theft Auto\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/klc0fQmAL6k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also in the interview, Gordon said another sign of success for GTA 6 is if people play the game instead of watching football on Thanksgiving, which is just a few days after GTA 6 releases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> &#8220;I think from my point of view, what success for GTA 6 is going to be on Thanksgiving Day after eating your turkey, you don&#8217;t watch football, you play GTA,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, it&#8217;s not a one or the other situation; people will no doubt play GTA 6 <em>and<\/em> watch football. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gordon also went on to point out how, in the movie business, a film reaching $300 million is great and $1 billion is obscenely great. Video games can reach those numbers, too, but the film and video game businesses are not directly comparable for many reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GTA 6 is tracking to be a huge hit. Sensor Tower&#8217;s data claims the game has sold about 7 million copies thus far, generating close to $700 million in revenue. The same company is projecting 25 million preorders by launch, which would work out to about $2 billion in revenue by launch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest data from Circana shows that nearly 1 in 3 console and PC gamers in the US plan to buy GTA 6, and that&#8217;s the highest purchase intent ever recorded. <\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/if-gta-6-beats-football-on-thanksgiving-thats-a-win-ea-founder-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><br \/>\n<center><script>\n  atOptions = {\n    'key' : 'ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540',\n    'format' : 'iframe',\n    'height' : 90,\n    'width' : 728,\n    'params' : {}\n  };\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highrevenueformat.com\/ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540\/invoke.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockstar&#8217;s GTA 6 is expected to be a giant success commercially, but just how big does the game need to be to actually be successful&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5019,2472,2196,3402,10165,1025],"class_list":["post-96188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-beats","tag-football","tag-founder","tag-gta","tag-thanksgiving","tag-win","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}