{"id":35588,"date":"2026-09-26T22:37:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/26\/matthew-ball-xbox-is-very-happy-with-gta-6-pre-orders-breaking-their-internal-records\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T22:37:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:37:05","slug":"matthew-ball-xbox-is-very-happy-with-gta-6-pre-orders-breaking-their-internal-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/26\/matthew-ball-xbox-is-very-happy-with-gta-6-pre-orders-breaking-their-internal-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Ball: XBOX Is Very Happy With GTA 6 Pre-Orders, Breaking Their Internal Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew seems to know ball.<\/p>\n<p>XBOX is apparently satisfied with <em>GTA 6<\/em>\u2019s performance on their platform.<\/p>\n<p>XBOX Chief Strategic Officer Matthew Ball replied to Tom Warren of The Verge on social media:<\/p>\n<p><em>Tom, we are very happy with GTA VI pre-orders. The title is breaking records for XBOX, we expect even more records will be broken throughout the fall, and our internal analysis shows our share of pre-orders to be matching our share of the console market.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tom just shared a The Verge report with rumors about the XBOX reset announced this week.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew\u2019s response is interesting for several reasons. For one, before Matthew worked for XBOX, he said that he hoped <em>GTA 6<\/em> would retail for $ 100.<\/p>\n<p>Since taking his current position, Matthew has been using his Twitter account to address and debunk rumors about XBOX. This reflects a change in attitude from Phil Spencer\u2019s to Asha Sharma\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we understand that Matthew is speaking the company line. But fans who accuse Matthew of lying or speaking spin should remember that this is the official company response to an unverified rumor.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/gameranx.com\/updates\/id\/564190\/article\/matthew-ball-xbox-is-very-happy-with-gta-6-pre-orders-breaking-their-internal-records\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew seems to know ball. XBOX is apparently satisfied with GTA 6\u2019s performance on their platform. XBOX Chief Strategic Officer Matthew Ball replied to Tom Warren of The Verge on social media: Tom, we are very happy with GTA VI pre-orders. The title is breaking records for XBOX, we expect even more records will be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":35589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[637,182,5376,36,209,1674,1675,1523,216,1525],"class_list":["post-35588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gaming","tag-grand-theft-auto-6","tag-gta-6","tag-matthew-ball","tag-mixtv","tag-ps5","tag-rockstar","tag-take-two","tag-updates","tag-xbox","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}