A Best Buy gift card oversight has enabled another player to acquire Grand Theft Auto 6 for $2, continuing a trend of steep discounts tied to forgotten store credit. The purchase exploits an apparent loophole involving unused Best Buy cards that allow customers to pay dramatically below retail price for Rockstar's upcoming crime sandbox.
GTA 6 launches next month on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S at $69.99 standard edition. This marks the second major instance of players leveraging Best Buy gift card quirks to slash the price to near-nothing. The pattern suggests either a systemic issue with how Best Buy processes redemptions or a gap in their purchase verification system that savvy consumers have discovered.
Best Buy has not publicly addressed these incidents. The retailer typically tracks gift card balances and applies them automatically at checkout, but something in that infrastructure appears exploitable. Whether this stems from expired cards, account glitches, or forgotten balances remaining in the system remains unclear.
Rockstar has remained silent on the discrepancy as well. Take-Two Interactive, the parent company, typically guards GTA 6's pricing structure tightly given the franchise's cultural dominance and financial importance. A $69.99 price point already faced criticism from players accustomed to $59.99 releases, making these sub-$5 acquisitions a public relations concern for the publisher.
The timing matters. GTA 6 arrives February 2025 with unprecedented hype. Preorder numbers already crushed expectations. Any perception that players can circumvent full pricing, even if unintentional, undermines revenue projections and sets a precedent for future major releases. Best Buy may quietly patch this before launch, but the damage to their reputation within gaming circles lingers.
Players hunting for similar loopholes now actively search Best Buy's inventory for unused cards. The