Rockstar Games owner Take-Two is insisting that GTA 6 will be out next year as GTA 5 sales pass another milestone.
Apart from last year’s trailer, developer Rockstar Games and publisher Take-Two have said almost nothing about blockbuster-to-be GTA 6.
Considering that trailer didn’t reveal much in the way of details, fans have continued to be starved for information, concocting elaborate theories on when a second trailer will be released.
The long silence has also led to speculation and rumours of a delay, despite Take-Two’s assurance that GTA 6 will be out by the end of 2025. Now, the company has once again insisted that its release plans for the game haven’t changed.
When is GTA 6 coming out?
During Take-Two’s latest financial results covering its second quarter of the 2025 fiscal year (July 2024 to September 2024), chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick made no mention of a delay, explicitly stating GTA 6 will be out sometime in the autumn of 2025.
He also reiterated plans to launch Borderlands 4 and Mafia: The Old Country in the 2026 fiscal year. Both titles were revealed during this year’s Gamescom event and are currently slated for release in 2025.
While they lack a more concrete launch window, Zelnick did confirm with Variety that these games won’t be out within the same timeframe as GTA 6, no doubt to avoid cannibalising sales. ‘I think it’s safe to say that we wouldn’t, and no one would, stack up huge releases unnecessarily,’ he said.
There’s been no mention of another trailer for GTA 6, though, and while Take-Two appears confident it will have the game out in 2025, that doesn’t mean it won’t ever be delayed.
One former Rockstar dev has previously claimed that any such delay wouldn’t be decided until next year. Plus, GTA 5 was originally meant to launch in spring 2013 but wound up being postponed until September that year.
Speaking of GTA 5, in an earnings call (via The Motley Fool), it was revealed the games’ sales now exceed 205 million units, surpassing the company’s expectations. With this 11 year-old game continuing to make money, Rockstar and Take-Two can afford to take their time with GTA 6.
Perhaps more surprising is confirmation that the Borderlands franchise has benefitted from this year’s live action movie. While said movie was a critical and commercial flop, it actually drove up sales for the Borderlands games, according to Zelnick.
That said, he still called the movie ‘disappointing’ and suggested Take-Two will be more careful with how it licenses its IPs going forward: ‘… we have licensed other titles, we’ll continue selectively to do so, but emphasis on the word selectively.’
Elsewhere, Take-Two finally explained its intentions with its Private Division subsidiary. Earlier this year, there were reports of mass lay-offs within Private Division, with two of its studios shut down.
Take-Two was strangely vague about the whole thing, but now the company has confirmed it’s already sold off Private Division to an unnamed buyer, so Take-Two can ‘focus our resources on growing our core and mobile businesses for the long term.’
GTA 5 just won’t stop making money (Rockstar)
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