Sony just dropped its official PlayStation Store download rankings for 2025 and the results only serve to confirm what anyone who's been paying attention already suspected. Grand Theft Auto V isn't just holding on - it's still crushing it. The 12-year-old open-world crime simulator ranked third in the US/Canada and second in Europe on the PS5 charts for the full year.
On PS4, it held steady at fifth and sixth in those same regions. Here's the thing: GTA V is the only title that cracked the top three on PS5 in both territories. Not Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. Not Ghost of Yōtei. Not Monster Hunter Wilds. A game that originally launched when the PS3 was still Sony's flagship console. GTA V outperformed a stacked lineup of brand-new 2025 releases. Battlefield 6, Arc Raiders, Assassin's Creed Shadows, and even the long-awaited The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered all launched this year. They all landed below Rockstar's aging titan on at least one regional chart.
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Open this market in The BookieRockstar Games' continued investment in Los Santos content kept players coming back throughout 2025. The December 2025 mansion update, officially titled A Safehouse in the Hills, proved especially effective. After that update dropped, featuring the return of Michael De Santa himself and introducing purchasable luxury properties, GTA V rocketed from eighth place in November to third in December on the PS5 charts.
Of course, this comes with a bit of a caveat. Sony briefly tore down the PlayStation Plus paywall for GTA Online during the mansion update's launch window. Two weeks of free access likely boosted those download numbers further. Although it's worth noting that the Money Fronts update pushed GTA V to second place in the US and third in Europe during June. The pattern is clear - every major GTA Online content drop translates directly into chart movement.
Most games are lucky to stay relevant for two years. GTA V is entering its thirteenth year with momentum that would make most 2025 releases jealous. With that said, on the PS4 side, Rockstar's other evergreen title Red Dead Redemption 2 claimed the top spot in both US/Canada and Europe. Between that and GTA V, Rockstar dominated the last-gen charts despite releasing precisely zero new games in 2025.
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Grand Theft Auto VI is currently slated for November 2026, assuming no further delays strike us in the meantime. Until then, GTA Online serves as both a placeholder and a proving ground. The community is still engaged, still spending, and still downloading a game that predates the PS5 by nearly a decade.
Will this engagement translate into a smooth transition when the sixthquel finally arrives? Are players just counting down the days until they can finally see what Leonida has to offer? Rockstar and Take-Two Interactive are undoubtedly banking on it. For now, it's clear why PlayStation is reportedly the preferred partner for Grand Theft Auto, and it goes beyond Microsoft fumbling the initial deal.
And if GTA V's continued dominance tells us anything, it's that Rockstar has earned the benefit of the doubt, legal issues be damned. At least for now.
