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Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said on the company's fiscal Q2 2027 earnings call on November 9 that Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-orders are tracking well above expectations, with up to $3.5 billion expected during the launch period. Zelnick said the game will set a new baseline for the publisher and that GTA 6 caused some gamers to hold off on buying other games, including Take-Two's own NBA 2K27. Asked about AI-assisted decompilation and reverse-engineering raising piracy concerns, he said Take-Two is enhancing technical defenses and legal activity, and that making hit games remains the purview of human beings. He also said the console and PC experiences tend to be roughly the same, while the PC version will not exist at launch. IGN also published an interview with Zelnick ten days before the November 19 release, and an expert piece arguing AI-made PC ports would not sink the launch.