GTA V stays a blockbuster as GTA 6 nears, charts show strong demand
GTA V drew 14.2 million players in April, while PS5 and PS4 charts kept GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2 near the top as GTA 6 inches closer.
GTA V and GTA Online still pulled 14.2 million players across Xbox, PlayStation and Steam in April, even before counting Rockstar Launcher and Epic Games Store users. That was down about 1.35 million from March, but it still left Rockstar’s flagship behind only Fortnite and Counter-Strike 2 in the cited industry ranking. For a game that first shipped in 2013, those are not legacy numbers. They are the kind of numbers that keep a publisher comfortable.
The scale has been there for months. GTA V hit 21.2 million monthly players in January across Steam, Xbox and PlayStation, and it was still No. 2 on the cross-platform active-user chart. Take-Two Interactive said on May 21, 2026 that fiscal 2027 would be driven by the planned November 19, 2026 launch of Grand Theft Auto VI. Even with that new release on the horizon, GTA Online and GTA V were still among the biggest contributors to fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 net bookings and GAAP net revenue. Rockstar had already described the interest around a new Grand Theft Auto as “truly humbling” in its May 2, 2025 delay announcement.
The console charts tell the same story in a more familiar language. In PlayStation’s April 2026 download rankings, GTA V stayed in the PS5 top tier in Europe and moved from seventh to fifth in the U.S. and Canada. On PS4, it slipped to 10th in Europe and held 12th place in North America for a second straight month. Red Dead Redemption 2 also remained a force, finishing No. 1 on PS4 in Europe and the U.S. and Canada, while Star Wars Battlefront II took the PS4 top spot in the U.S. and Canada only.
Taken together, those figures show why Rockstar does not need to act desperate before GTA 6 lands. Its back catalog is still behaving like a live hit, not a museum piece, with players and downloaders treating GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2 as current options rather than old downloads. That gives Rockstar room to keep its marketing conservative and its support tail long, because Los Santos is still crowded and the old western still moves units while the next Grand Theft Auto waits in the wings.
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