GTA 6 is not sitting at a permanent, uncontested #1 on the PlayStation Store, and it never really has been. Reddit’s most upvoted post this week claims Grand Theft Auto VI is “now the top-selling game on the PlayStation store, surpassing NBA, MW4, Wolverine and FC.” That was true when it happened. It is also already out of date, because Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 and 2, EA Sports FC 27, and NBA 2K27 have each taken a turn at the top since GTA 6’s Ultimate Edition first grabbed the crown.

None of this is a crisis for Rockstar. It is a byproduct of how PlayStation Store charts are calculated, and once you understand that, the whole “GTA 6 dethroned” news cycle stops being confusing and starts being genuinely interesting. Here is the full, current timeline, pulled from outlet reporting rather than any single screenshot.

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The short answer

GTA 6, usually its $99.99 Ultimate Edition, has spent more time at #1 on PlayStation Store charts than any other single title since pre-orders opened on June 25, 2026. But it has been knocked off the top spot in specific markets at least four separate times by four different games: Roblox and Rematch on the free Trending list, Call of Duty’s Black Ops 1 and 2 re-releases on the paid Bestsellers chart, and most recently EA Sports FC 27 and NBA 2K27 in Europe and the US. As of this week, GTA 6 Ultimate Edition still holds #1 in most major markets, but “most” is doing real work in that sentence, and the full picture is messier than any single Reddit post captures.

Long before there was anything to buy, GTA 6 held the #1 spot on PlayStation Store’s Trending Games list, the ranking driven by views, wishlists, and search traffic rather than actual purchases. It had owned that spot going back to Trailer 2’s release in May 2025.

That streak got interrupted twice this year, and both times by games nobody would call a competitor in the traditional sense. GTA BOOM reported that Roblox, a platform that has been around since 2006, jumped to #1 on the Trending list after shipping a native PS5 app, pushing GTA 6 down purely on the strength of curiosity clicks from console players who had never had a PS5 version to try before. Later, TheGamer and Sportskeeda both reported that Rematch, Sloclap’s 5v5 online football game, took the UK’s #1 Trending spot after its own launch spike.

Neither of these dethronements involved a single copy of anything being sold. They are worth knowing about mainly because outlets and social posts sometimes blur “Trending” and “Bestsellers” together, and the two numbers measure completely different things.

June 25: pre-orders open and GTA 6 takes the bestseller chart

Everything changes once real money is on the table. GTA 6 pre-orders went live on the PlayStation Store on June 25, 2026, priced at $79.99 for the Standard Edition and $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition. Within days, it climbed to #1 on the actual sales chart, not just the trending list, across the US, UK, Japan, South Korea, and most of Europe, according to ixbt.games and GAMES.GG. This is the chart that reflects genuine purchasing behavior, since PlayStation Store bestseller rankings are calculated by revenue generated, not raw unit counts.

July 9-12: Black Ops 1 and 2 briefly take over

The first real hit to GTA 6’s bestseller position came from an unlikely direction. Treyarch and Iron Galaxy shipped PS4 and PS5 ports of the original Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2 on July 9, 2026, complete campaign, multiplayer, and Zombies included, priced at $39.99 each.

Within days, both re-releases had shot past GTA 6 on the PS Store bestsellers chart. Gamingbible reported on July 11 that Black Ops 2 had become the top-selling game on the PlayStation Store, with the original Black Ops sitting directly behind it in second place, ahead of GTA 6, College Football 27, and even free-to-play Fortnite. German outlet playstationinfo.de and GAMES.GG confirmed the same swing on July 12, and outlets from TheGamer to GameRant framed it as Call of Duty briefly beating the most anticipated game of the decade with two 15-year-old re-releases.

Part of that was a genuine novelty spike: two classic campaigns landing on current consoles for the first time, with a PlayStation Plus discount for existing subscribers sweetening the opening weekend. Multiple outlets, including Technobezz, framed it as a likely temporary displacement rather than a lasting trend, and that read held up.

July 20-21: GTA 6 Ultimate Edition reclaims nine markets

By July 20, the Black Ops bump had faded and GTA 6 was back on top. GTA BOOM reported that the Ultimate Edition had reclaimed the #1 PlayStation Store pre-order spot in nine tracked markets, including the United States, Canada, the UK, France, Japan, India, and South Korea.

The more interesting detail sits inside that story rather than the headline. Kotaku noted that in most of those markets, it is specifically the $99.99 Ultimate Edition outselling the $79.99 Standard Edition, not the other way around, meaning Rockstar has talked a meaningful share of buyers into paying an extra $20 before the game is even out. Since PlayStation Store charts rank by revenue, a base of buyers skewing toward the pricier edition helps GTA 6 hold the top spot even if its raw pre-order count were flat.

July 24: EA Sports FC 27 and NBA 2K27 muscle in

The chart flipped again just three days later, and this time the challengers came from sports gaming rather than shooters. Gamingbible reported on July 24 that EA Sports FC 27’s $149.99 Ultimate Plus Edition had overtaken GTA 6’s Ultimate Edition on PlayStation Store charts across the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. Khel Now and tech4gamers confirmed the same swing, and Khel Now added that in the United States specifically, it was NBA 2K27’s $129.99 Ultra Edition doing the overtaking rather than FC 27.

That is two different sports franchises beating GTA 6 in two different regions, both by leaning on a premium edition priced well above GTA 6’s own $99.99 top tier. FC 27’s Ultimate Plus Edition briefly made GTA 6 no longer the most expensive edition of any major 2026 release, a title it held for most of the summer.

Why the chart keeps flipping

Once you know the mechanism, the pattern is not mysterious. PlayStation Store bestseller charts are revenue rankings, not popularity contests. A publisher can push its own game to #1 in a given week simply by pricing a premium edition high enough, regardless of how many people actually buy it relative to a cheaper release. That is exactly what Call of Duty’s re-releases, EA Sports FC 27, and NBA 2K27 have each done in turn, and it is exactly what GTA 6’s own Ultimate Edition has been doing to hold its spot most of the time.

Add in launch-week novelty spikes, regional pricing differences, and the completely separate Trending list that measures curiosity rather than purchases, and you get a chart that looks chaotic from a single screenshot but makes sense once you track it over weeks instead of days. GTA 6 is not uniquely vulnerable here. Any single game holding a revenue-based #1 spot for months straight, across every region, without a single new premium release ever knocking it loose even briefly, would be the actual surprise.

So what does this actually say about GTA 6’s launch demand?

Less than the headlines suggest, in either direction. The bulls citing “#1 in nine markets” and the skeptics citing “Black Ops just beat GTA 6” are both reading a single data point from a chart that moves on its own schedule. The more useful read is the aggregate: GTA 6 has held a top-three revenue position on PlayStation Store in almost every tracked market almost continuously since June 25, its Ultimate Edition is outselling its own cheaper edition, and none of the games that have briefly outranked it, Call of Duty re-releases, a football sim, a basketball sim, are actually competing for the same open-world crime game audience come November 19. For anyone deciding whether to lock in a pre-order now, our GTA 6 pre-order guide breaks down what each edition includes, and our regional pricing breakdown covers how the Standard and Ultimate prices compare market to market. For the bigger picture on where GTA 6 stands heading into launch, see our full release date and timeline hub.

SixHype is an independent fan site and is not affiliated with Rockstar Games, Take-Two Interactive, Sony, Activision, or Electronic Arts. Chart claims above are attributed to the outlets that reported them; SixHype did not independently pull raw PlayStation Store sales data.

FAQ

Is GTA 6 the number one game on the PlayStation Store right now? It depends on the country and which chart you mean. GTA 6, usually the $99.99 Ultimate Edition, has held the #1 pre-order spot in nine markets including the US, UK, Canada, and Japan as of July 20-21, 2026, but EA Sports FC 27 and NBA 2K27 have since outsold it in several European countries and the US respectively, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 and 2 briefly beat it worldwide in mid-July.

Did Black Ops really beat GTA 6 on PlayStation Store? Yes, briefly. When Black Ops and Black Ops 2 launched as PS4/PS5 ports on July 9, 2026, they took the #1 and #2 bestseller spots for several days in mid-July, ahead of GTA 6. GTA 6 Ultimate Edition reclaimed the top spot in most tracked markets by July 20-21.

Why does GTA 6 keep losing and regaining the top spot? PlayStation Store bestseller charts rank by revenue, not units sold. Every time a new $100+ premium edition launches, whether a Call of Duty re-release, EA Sports FC 27’s $150 edition, or NBA 2K27’s $130 edition, it can temporarily out-earn GTA 6 in a given market even without outselling it in raw copies.

Does losing the PS Store top spot mean GTA 6 pre-orders are weak? No. GTA 6 Ultimate Edition still outsells its own $79.99 Standard Edition by a wide margin and holds #1 in most major markets most of the time. The chart flips reflect how revenue-based rankings react to new premium-priced releases, not a drop in GTA 6 demand.

What is the difference between the PS Store “Trending” list and the “Bestsellers” chart? The Trending list ranks by views, wishlists, and search activity, while the Bestsellers chart ranks by actual revenue from purchases and pre-orders. GTA 6 has been dethroned from the Trending list by free or low-cost titles like Roblox and Rematch, which does not reflect sales at all.