Report: Publishers Waiting to Announce Release Dates to Avoid Release of GTA 6 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 10 December 2024 / 1,415 Views
Grand Theft Auto VI has missed multiple deadlines during its development, however, Take-Two claims the game is now back on track, according to a report from Bloomberg.
The report also claims that other publishers are waiting as long as possible before committing to a release date for Fall 2025. This is according to multiple sources.
The publishers are waiting to see if Take-Two and Rockstar delay Grand Theft Auto VI from Fall 2025 into sometime in 2026. The sources claim these publishers want to release their games far away from Grand Theft Auto VI.
The last entry in the franchise, Grand Theft Auto V, has sold over 205 million units since it released in September 2013.
Grand Theft Auto VI is in development for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
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I just hope this doesn’t lead to a massive dry spell in releases because Rockstar waits to the last second to announce a release date or delay it to 2026 lol
If Rockstar locked holiday 2025 in soon enough, you'd likely get a flood of games over the next year because everyone would want to push their game out asap. Could lead to some broken games on launch.
GTAVI then launches holiday 2025, leading to no new game announcements by anyone until early-mid to mid 2026, giving holiday 2026 launch dates. LOL.
That would be hilarious, if it wasn't actually as likely as it may very well be.
This game is going to be toned down more politically correct , compared to earlier games. Bet they'll be playing it safe.
If it is being made that way, the tides have turned and they've got a year to get back to basics if they really want to. Could always delay to make whatever changes they may want to as well.
GTA is all about being anti politically correct. Freedom to the max, to a ridiculous degree. That's what makes it so fun. It's going to be a miracle if they can thread the needle.
i hope not, keep the woke shit out, this is GTA!
Monster sales once this drops,
Man announced yo release date already so other games can release too lol
Too bad the single player element will be smaller than V in my opinion. Rockstar know the online part was the biggest driver of purchases.
I don't necessarily disagree, though I wouldn't put it past Rockstar to try and drop a DLC or 2 at high prices to see how much of the player base will bite. Those DLC could even potentially have been part of the main campaign, but kept separate to see if they can make story DLC work like with GTA Online.
Maybe, maybe not, but I'd rather them do a reasonable if not big campaign and be done with it, or if they skimp on the campaign a bit, then they need to make the DLC a reasonable price if they want to keep making and selling campaign DLC's.
Cutting back quite a bit on the campaign, without any future DLC, just so they can focus more and build on GTA Online would be unacceptable as far as I'm concerned.
"The last entry in the franchise, Grand Theft Auto V, has sold over 205 million units since it released in September 2013"
GTAVI is going to be huge... but I do think it's hype it typically being overstated quite a bit.
People seem to forget that GTAV released across 3 generations and many of its sales are from people who bought the game multiple times on multiple platforms.
I own the game 4 times personally (360, PS4, PS5, PC), and I would probably buy it again if it ever came to Switch or Switch2.
Look at GTA V’s launch though. Over $1 billion in sales in its first weekend. $815 million of that in its first 24 hours. Game had sold nearly 30 million copies within its first six weeks of release and even cracked $2 billion in revenue while still only being on the 360/PS3 and becoming one of the best selling games of all time before it even touched XOne/PS4/PC.
It’s not overstated that GTA VI is getting a ton of hype. GTA V never eased off the pedal even with repeated re-releases.
I specifically said... GTAVI is going to be huge lol
It just seems like everyone expects 50-100 million units sold in 24 hours.
GTAV has in fact continued to sell... but a lot of those sales are to the same people are like me that already owned/played on previous generations.
Lol yeah that's certainly not feasible considering there's currently not even 100 million PS5/Xbox Series consoles out in the wild combined. GTA 6 will certainly make a lot of people that are not on current-gen systems finally make the upgrade though. Who knows what GTA 6 can potentially do at launch.
AFAIK, GTA 5 is still the biggest entertainment launch in history. I would hope 12 years later, the next title would at least be a bigger launch than the previous entry.
Not to mention price cuts. I paid the equivalent to U$6,00 on the pc version in my currency last year.
GTA VI will be around for a long long time!
Any idea of what will happen with GTA Online? Supposedly next year PC will get the Expanded edition. Rockstar said anything about a GTA6 online mode yet? Knowing them... I doubt they'll support 2 online worlds for a long time
They'll probably support whatever they expect to make money. At some point they'll probably start thinking about pushing the folks over to GTA VI instead, but with the amount of players GTA Online must still be getting and is likely to get a good while after GVA VI launches, it's probably going to take a while.
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