If you haven’t already secured a pre-order for Grand Theft Auto VI, Amazon may not be the best place to do it.
As noted on Reddit, “physical” copies of GTA VI are partially sold out on Amazon right now. I put “physical” in quotes because the game rather infamously will not ship on a disc, and I say “partially” because it seems like only the Xbox Series version of the game is sold out right now. At the time of publication, it is possible to pre-order the PS5 version on Amazon.
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That message doesn’t appear when you switch to the PS5 version.
Credit: Screenshot: Amazon
You might be wondering how it’s possible for a game that isn’t shipping on a disc to sell out ahead of time. Mashable has reached out to Amazon for full clarification on the matter, but if you read between the lines on the Amazon store page, you can put it together. Pre-ordering via Amazon or another physical retailer will get you a box for the game, but the box will only include a download code instead of a disc, according to the fine print on Amazon.
In other words, it seems like Amazon has run out of Xbox boxes with download codes in them for the time being. As a reminder, you can pre-order the game directly from the Xbox digital storefront on your console, as long as you don’t care about having a box to put on your shelf.
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