GTA 6 writer Take-Two Interactive simply revealed the sport’s new launch date window – and followers are in for an extended wait.
After months of silence following the discharge of the sport’s first trailer, the corporate dropped the replace in its quarterly monetary report on Thursday, Might 16.
So, when will you get your palms on GTA 6? Right here’s what you could learn about that all-important launch date, together with the whole lot else we’ve realized concerning the sport to this point.
Followers using excessive on the primary trailer’s shiny visuals could have been upset when the sport’s tentative launch date was confirmed on the finish of the clip. Because the title flashed throughout the display screen, the textual content under revealed that GTA 6 would arrive in 2025.
Now, writer Take-Two Interactive has revised that launch date window additional by promising to launch the sport in Autumn 2025. That signifies that on the time of writing, there are at the very least 493 days to go till GTA 6. Higher purchase a brand new enterprise on GTA On-line to cross the time then.
The sixth sport within the Grand Theft Auto sequence will embrace its first feminine protagonist, Lucia
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“We’re extremely assured that Rockstar Video games will ship an unparalleled leisure expertise, and our expectations for the business affect of the title proceed to extend,” mentioned Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick on the corporate’s earnings name.
The brand new launch window is a intestine punch for followers hoping to play it sooner after a gruelling 11-year look forward to the brand new sport.
Maybe avid gamers can take solace in the truth that Take-Two is sticking to the 2025 timeline, following worrying reviews that GTA 6 could possibly be delayed to 2026.
The sixth sport within the Grand Theft Auto sequence will likely be launched in Autumn 2025
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We already knew that it was full steam forward for the sport’s developer Rockstar because it readies the subsequent chapter in its American crime saga. In February, Bloomberg reported that the agency had entered the ultimate phases of growth on GTA 6, with workers being ordered again to work from the workplace 5 days every week to finish it.
Nevertheless, a subsequent article from gaming web site Kotaku (which different reviews have dismissed) claimed Rockstar modified its work-from-home coverage in a last-gasp sprint to stop a pricey delay. With the sport reportedly “falling behind” schedule, the developer was “nervous” about “lacking the 2025 window and slipping into 2026”.
Kotaku beforehand reported that GTA 6 was initially eyeing an early 2025 launch date, however Rockstar’s earnings name on Might 16 pushed the date again to later within the yr.
May a jail break be a part of the GTA 6 marketing campaign?
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What platforms will GTA 6 be on?
Rockstar’s web site mentioned the sport would launch on current-gen consoles in 2025, together with the PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S.
There is not any phrase on a PC launch however we would not be stunned to see it launch a number of months later within the vein of GTA 5.
Sadly for PS4 homeowners, the sport will not be launched on last-gen {hardware}. That is all of the extra motive so as to add a PS5 or Xbox Sequence X or S to your Xmas wishlist. Or, you possibly can look forward to the PS5 Slim, which is arriving within the UK quickly.
Prepare to go to the swamps of Florida-inspired Vice Metropolis in GTA 6
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We might already heard rumblings that GTA 6 could be set in Vice Metropolis, a fictional tackle Miami, Florida, and the trailer confirmed that.
Loosely based mostly on the cities of Miami and Miami Seashore and set within the fictional state of Leonidas, it appears attractive. Given Rockstar’s penchant for creating large, detailed open worlds — it’s no shock the sport will function Everglades-style swamp areas.
Within the trailer, we see an airboat careening via a swamp. There are two fast scenes of this space. One is ready on a gorgeous sun-dappled morning, the opposite through the day, with dozens of flamingos on-screen without delay.
An odd buyer walks right into a retailer within the GTA 6 trailer
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There are additionally a few scenes of alligators intruding into retailers and other people’s houses. The record of oddball characters consists of grime bike gangs, a convict coated in face tats, a hammer-wielding Karen, and a lady twerking on a shifting automotive.
As older followers will recall, Vice Metropolis was the setting for 2002’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice Metropolis. Early reviews urged the sport world could also be bigger than that of GTA 5, whereas the earlier Vice Metropolis was a comparatively small assortment of islands.
What’s GTA 6’s rumoured story?
As is broadly reported, we’re getting the sequence’ first feminine protagonist. Considered one of GTA 6’s principal characters is a lady named Lucia. We see her in jail and out of it, committing an armed theft along with her male associate (who was beforehand recognized in leaks as Jason).
Like a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde, the duo are more likely to enterprise on a crime-fuelled odyssey throughout the state of Leonidas, taking in its deranged sights and sounds, and clashing with its underworld milieu.
As Tupac and Jay-Z famously sang: “All I want on this lifetime of sin is me and my girlfriend.”
Co-founder of Rockstar Video games, Dan Houser, informed the Guardian in 2013 why a lady wasn’t playable in GTA V — and the way the staff may make it occur.
One factor’s for positive, the brand new sport will function extra high-speed getaways
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“We didn’t actually give it some thought this time [of GTA V]. That’s to not say that we couldn’t or we wouldn’t,” he mentioned. “This character set is simply what got here to us: it wasn’t, ‘We’ve bought X and Y so we want Z’, we weren’t making an attempt to do it off a guidelines — I don’t suppose that may ever offer you one thing that’s plausible or participating.
“Sooner or later, may we do a sport with a lead feminine character? After all. We simply haven’t discovered the correct sport for it but, nevertheless it’s one of many issues that we at all times take into consideration. It didn’t really feel pure for this sport however positively for the correct sport sooner or later – with the correct themes, it could possibly be implausible.”
Different rumours have hinted at the potential for a playable feminine character who’s the intelligent one within the group and is nice at utilizing know-how and hacking. Sounds nice to us.
What has Rockstar mentioned about GTA 6?
Other than the trailer, Rockstar’s different massive clue about GTA 6’s launch date got here final Might.
In a press launch, the corporate forecasted a record-breaking windfall in revenue for its fiscal yr 2025, which covers April 2024 to March 2025.
“We anticipate to enter this new period by launching a number of ground-breaking titles that we imagine will set new requirements in our business and allow us to attain over $8 billion (£6.5bn) in internet bookings,” the gaming firm mentioned.
In February final yr, Rockstar confirmed {that a} new entry within the GTA franchise was within the works.
“With each new venture we embark on, our objective is at all times to considerably transfer past what we have now beforehand delivered – and we’re happy to verify that lively growth for the subsequent entry within the Grand Theft Auto sequence is properly underway,” the corporate mentioned.
Rockstar could also be cagey about asserting extra information following a number of high-profile leaks.
In September 2022, a UK-based hacker broke into the corporate’s servers and revealed virtually 100 movies of an early in-development model of the sport. A candidate for essentially the most substantial pre-release online game leak ever, it confirmed the sport in a state by no means meant to be seen by the general public.
Months later, a TikTok account known as @i_see_in_4k shared two quick movies of the sport on Saturday, December 2.
Each clips confirmed what gave the impression to be the sport’s map. There was additionally a digicam panning to point out a piece of the town with skyscrapers within the distance and a freeway to the facet.
Quickly after the footage appeared on TikTok, gaming information web site GTABase reported that “it seems the ‘leaked’ footage has come from the son of a Rockstar Video games worker”.
Rockstar has not confirmed the authenticity of the leaked footage, nor has it spoken on who was behind it.
Then, in essentially the most notorious leak but, the sport’s trailer was leaked on social media hours earlier than its auspicious launch date. The grainy, low-quality clip was watermarked with large textual content that learn “Purchase BTC” concerning the cryptocurrency bitcoin.
Rockstar reacted by swiftly importing the trailer to YouTube, whereas the account behind the leak was banned from X (previously Twitter).