GTA 6 is the most pre-ordered game ever on Xbox and PlayStation, and PC players are just sat here

PC Gamer's running a piece saying GTA 6 is now the most pre-ordered game of all time on both Xbox and PlayStation. Not most pre-ordered this year. Most pre-ordered ever, on both platforms. Which lines up with what Sony was saying about the PlayStation Store record, so at this point the numbers are piling up from every direction.
And then there's the other half of the headline. On PC it's apparently among the least pre-ordered games of all time. Which is a very funny way of saying nobody can pre-order it, because there's no PC version announced. PC Gamer even hangs a lantern on it with a "well, you know." Yeah lads. We know.
Two records at once, sort of
It's a weird flex when you think about it. Dominating pre-orders on two consoles while the platform with the biggest install base in a lot of regions gets nothing. Nobody's shocked by the console numbers though. Pre-orders opened back in June, there's a Standard at $79.99 and an Ultimate at $99.99, and the thing's been building for years. People have been saving up for this one.
The PC side is the bit that stings. No announcement, no date, nothing. Just a void where a store page should be. Every time someone from Take-Two gets asked about it we get a shrug and a line about Rockstar handling that stuff.
Most pre-ordered game ever on Xbox and PlayStation. Least pre-ordered on PC. Both true at the same time.
I'm not even mad, I'm just tired. Console players are gonna be wandering around Leonida on November 19 while the rest of us watch streams and pretend we're fine. Which we will be. Totally fine.
Genuinely though, if the console numbers are this silly already, imagine what the PC launch looks like whenever it happens. That's a whole second wave of record-breaking waiting to go off. Assuming we live that long.
Anyone here double dipping on console just to be there day one, or are you holding out for the PC version?
Source: PC Gamer · Curated content.
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