00:00Some GTA 6 hopefuls are killing time waiting for the game's November 2026 release date
00:04by snooping through Rockstar Games' financial records, and trying to work out how much the
00:08open world blockbuster costs to make. YouTuber Saoko505 recently decided to investigate the
00:14nebulous GTA 6 budget in a new video by mixing some amount of guesswork with the developer's
00:19publicly available financial documents on the UK government website, which breaks down how much
00:23the studio spent on staff salaries and more between 2019 and now, seemingly for every Rockstar
00:28studio, not just the ones based in the UK. The content creator eventually concluded that
00:33GTA 6's budget is somewhere between $3 billion and $5 billion on the high end, though he states
00:38that he's by no means an accountant, and that his maths shouldn't be taken as gospel.
00:42It should also be noted that a company's expenditure doesn't necessarily align with a game's budget,
00:46since there's likely a decent chunk of Rockstar developers who were working on GTA Online,
00:50Red Dead Online, Red Dead Redemption's next-gen version, and more during that time. Not to
00:55mention that every company has costs unrelated to the products they built. We're unlikely to ever
00:59really know how much GTA 6 costs to produce, so take all speculation with a grain of salt.
01:04However, should the guesses made by Saoko505 and others turn out to be true,
01:08then the crime epic is probably the most expensive entertainment product ever made,
01:13far exceeding the reported budgets of mammoth movie and game releases.
