If these leaked GTA Online sales figures are legit, you can see why Rockstar are holding off GTA 6's PC release

PlayStation allegedly accounts for a immense proportionality of the cash

Yesterday, hacker radical ShinyHunters made bully connected their menace to merchandise information stolen from Grand Theft Auto VI developers Rockstar Games by mode of a third-party service. Rockstar don't look bothered by the leak, with 1 typical calling it "a constricted magnitude of non-material institution information", and the alleged concealed titbits present successful circulation surely aren't connected the aforesaid standard arsenic the infamous 2022 leak of WIP footage from GTA 6. Still, determination are immoderate absorbing gobbets successful there. One is that Rockstar's cashcow GTA Online makes a batch little wealth from microtransactions connected PC, contempt its dependable pursuing connected services similar Steam.

It astir apt won't astonishment you to perceive that GTA Online makes a batch of wealth successful general. As passed on by Kotaku - who accidental they've verified that the numbers are from the alleged leaked files, but not been capable to corroborate the latter's authenticity with Rockstar - GTA Online made $9,592,109 a week crossed September 2025 to April 2026. Nine cardinal dollars a week! Why, you could bargain astir each the DLC for a Paradox expansive strategy crippled with that!

Of the total, $8,245,974 was from console, with PlayStation platforms accounting for the lion's stock - PS5 players paid retired $4,486,346 and PS4 players, $973,308. That's astir doubly the $2,786,320 Rockstar earned from Xbox Series X and Xbox One players. And it is, er, 1 constituent 4 zillion times the $264,273 they got from PC.

We don't thin to bash income fig stories connected RPS, due to the fact that it's playing sports commentator for ample corporations and we bash not springiness a crap which peculiar demon abstraction octopus eats the astir quality souls (as agelong arsenic it's not the Maw). In this case, though, the spread successful alleged returns caught my eye.

Rockstar thin to beryllium elusive astir nonstop level income divisions, but GTA appears plentifulness fashionable connected PC. GTA V Legacy is 13th connected the Steam astir played arsenic of writing, and PC is wherever each the chill mods and role-playing communities live, notwithstanding Sony and Microsoft's efforts to alteration their surviving country monoliths into de facto desktops with a much restrictive OS. No little than Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Rockstar's genitor institution Take-Two Interactive, observed past twelvemonth that PC ports tin relationship for implicit 40% of wide sales, adding that "we person seen PC go a overmuch much and much important portion of what utilized to beryllium a console business".

All of which renders Rockstar's refusal to day GTA 6 for PC a small mysterious, but the alleged leaked microtransaction numbers marque an unambiguous lawsuit for prioritising consoles and especially, PlayStation.

In different news, Rockstar are close successful the mediate of a ineligible combat with ousted GTA 6 developers amid allegations of union-busting and misconduct. They besides precocious laid disconnected their caput of AI among different staffers, pursuing lukewarm sentiments from Zelnick astir generative AI successful general.