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# Take-Two rose 8% on a pre-order number nobody outside the company has seen
- URL: https://www.sharespective.com/stories/take-two-rose-8-pre-order-2026-11-11/
- Published: 2026-11-10T22:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-11T01:50:34.000Z
- Description: Take-Two closed at US$224.00 on Tuesday, up 8%, after telling investors that pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI are running far above what it expected. It did not say how far.
- Author: Shaun Botha
- Tags: Gaming, #story, #group-other

Take-Two closed at US$224.00 on Tuesday, up 8%, after telling investors that pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI are running far above what it expected. It did not say how far.

**The quarter it actually reported was poor.** Net bookings fell 18% to US$1.60 billion, below the company's own guidance of US$1.62 billion to US$1.67 billion. The shares rose anyway.

The game arrives on 19 November at US$79.99 for the standard edition and US$99.99 for the ultimate edition. Take-Two has guided December-quarter bookings to between US$3.35 billion and US$3.5 billion.

[![Chart: Take-Two's value rises before GTA VI ships. Two scales, both US$bn: revenue by year to March (left), market value at each year end (right). The latest, US$42.0bn on 10 November, predates Tuesday's rise.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/02/71/0271df32-cec6-421f-9f13-b06ab90e54c1/content/images/2026/11/chart-take-scales-both-revenue-2026-11-11-wide-light.jpg)](https://www.sharespective.com/chart-take-scales-both-revenue-2026-11-11/) 

This story’s chart of the day: the numbers, the dark version and the animated version are on its own page. [The chart’s page →](https://www.sharespective.com/chart-take-scales-both-revenue-2026-11-11/)

José Montalvo, an economics professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, reckons about 1.5 million American workers will skip a day's work for the launch, at a cost of roughly US$1 billion in lost output.

The tell 

Take-Two has kept its full-year bookings forecast at US$8 billion to US$8.2 billion, which is the number that commits it to something. I'd want to see the opening weekend before taking the pre-order talk at face value.

[ This story ran in The Half-Point Problem Wednesday 11 November’s edition, with the market snapshot, the other two stories, the numbers and the week ahead. Read the whole edition → ](https://www.sharespective.com/sharespective-2026-11-11/)