There’s nonetheless no official phrase on when Grand Theft Auto 6 will launch, however the recreation’s writer has seemingly doubled down on a 2024 launch window. Again in Might, Rockstar Video games’ father or mother firm Take-Two Interactive stated it expects to make a boatload of cash throughout its subsequent fiscal yr, hinting that GTA 6 may launch in 2024.
Within the firm’s most up-to-date earnings name, Take-Two doubled down on this expectation, seemingly confirming that GTA 6 may launch in 2024. That additionally helps ongoing rumors that Rockstar might lastly reveal the sport later this yr.
Rockstar Video games’ father or mother firm Take-Two expects to make an absurd amount of cash subsequent yr.
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Throughout the latest Take-Two earnings name (as reported by Video Video games Chronicle), CEO Strauss Zelnick stated, “We stay assured that we’re positioning our enterprise for a big inflection level in fiscal 2025, which we imagine will embrace new file ranges of working efficiency.”
Particularly, the corporate “nonetheless anticipate[s] to ship $8 billion in Internet Bookings,” throughout fiscal yr 2025, which, as famous by Axios’ Stephen Totilo, runs from April 2024 to March 2025. Throughout a Might 2023 earnings name, Take-Two first revealed its lofty objectives for fiscal yr 2025. Now, as a part of the latest earnings name, Take-Two has reiterated the identical objective, indicating GTA 6’s growth is probably going nonetheless on observe.
For context, making $8 billion in web bookings would shatter an organization file, beating its highest web bookings of round $5.5 billion, set throughout its present fiscal yr. To realize such a large objective, Take-Two would want to have one thing substantial deliberate for launch subsequent yr, and probably the most logical recreation is GTA 6.
Assuming the corporate plans to launch GTA 6 in Fiscal 12 months 2025, the sport will launch any time between April 2024 to March 2025. However contemplating the corporate sometimes likes to launch its video games in late summer time and fall it’s extra probably GTA 6 will launch on the finish of 2024. With occasional exceptions (like 2022’s Elden Ring), January and February are sometimes quiet months for recreation releases, and these colossal income expectations could be far harder to satisfy in only one or two months. It’s nonetheless attainable the GTA 6 launch may slip to early 2025, however at this stage late 2024 appears much more probably from a enterprise perspective.
GTA 6 could also be revealed quickly to provide Rockstar loads of time to put it on the market.
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If GTA 6 is, certainly, popping out throughout that timeframe, Rockstar could also be gearing up for an announcement quickly. Persistent rumors have claimed we’ll get a full reveal by the top of 2023, maybe in the course of the Sport Awards in December. This could give the corporate round a yr to market what’s going to probably be one of many largest video games of all time.
Additionally noteworthy is the truth that Take-Two’s objectives for FY 2025 haven’t modified previously few months. It is a nice signal that — assuming GTA 6 is popping out throughout that point — the corporate is assured within the recreation’s growth schedule and launch. If the FY 2025 monetary objective had modified, that might have indicated the GTA 6 launch had slipped. However because it stands, the timeline has remained constant.