Three things get attached to the price that are not established, and all three are in the
ledger above rather than removed from the page — because the claim goes on circulating
elsewhere, and the one page that could correct it has to still contain the words somebody
will search for. The boxed edition does not contain a playable disc. A later disc release has
been reported and not announced. And no pre-order count has been published by anybody who
would know.
The 89% figure is a useful illustration of the difference between a measurement and a
disclosure. It is an analyst's estimate over a set of markets, its own author expects it to
fall, and it is quoted everywhere as though Rockstar had published it. Take-Two's language —
unprecedented, astonishing — is real and first-party, and it is not a number.
The boxed edition is the row that surprises people who pre-ordered one; it is set out in full
on the boxed edition. What each edition
contains, item by item, is on Standard and Ultimate,
and what a pre-order adds on top is on pre-orders.
Where GTA VI stands against its predecessor on everything else is on
compared with GTA 5.
