Take-Two may not get away with not bringing GTA 6 to disc.
Last week, Rockstar revealed that they would only provide retailers a code-in-a-box for a physical release.
A day later, Marco Cocomello of South African gaming site GLITCHED shared this on Twitter:
Word from local retailers in SA shows abysmal GTA VI pre-order numbers so far in the country. The code-in-box is the worst thing that could have happened locally.
If the game had a disc, we would have seen hundreds of orders within hours, yet some stores are sitting on single-digit numbers.
This issue also greatly affects businesses in SA, as stock allocations had already been fulfilled before the ‘no disc’ announcement. So, SA is going to be stuck with a boatload of game copies and no one buying them.
Today, Polygon shared a report that reveals the same issues in the US. Different GameStop employees revealed that gamers are refusing to pre-order GTA 6 after learning there’s no disc version.
One such employee claims that they only managed to get 5 preorders, out of a 500 preorder goal. Take-Two and Rockstar haven’t announced their pre-order numbers yet –and this might be the reason.
