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Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto VI is coming in Might 2026, and it is anticipated to be a big success. However Strauss Zelnick, the pinnacle of Rockstar mum or dad firm Take-Two, is not prepared to financial institution on it being a hit forward of launch. Talking to GI.biz, Zelnick mentioned, “We run scared round right here.”
“We’re trying over our shoulders. We take nothing with no consideration and we do not declare success till it happens. So whereas I could not be extra optimistic than I’m, all of us should do the work. Now we have to ship one thing nice to shoppers after which the shoppers are going to inform us simply how nice it’s,” he mentioned.
GTA is likely one of the greatest, most commercially profitable gaming franchises and the pent-up demand for GTA 6 is unquestionably going to make it an infinite success when it releases. One agency is predicting 40 million gross sales and billions in income within the first yr alone. For its half, Take-Two has not shared any gross sales or income projections for GTA 6, however it’s anticipated to be a juggernaut.
Whereas Zelnick would not give any particular gross sales projections, he did say, “I do assume it is truthful to say that that is maybe essentially the most extremely anticipated property pre-release within the historical past of leisure.”
GTA 5 was launched in 2013 and has offered greater than 215 million copies throughout all platforms, making it one of many best-selling video video games in historical past. Given the sport continues to promote, one analyst believes one of many greatest “threats” to GTA 6 is definitely GTA 5 and convincing folks to go away that sport for GTA 6.
There may be additionally the query of what’s going to occur with GTA On-line when GTA 6 comes out. Rockstar has but to share any data in any respect about GTA 6’s anticipated on-line ingredient, however these particulars ought to turn out to be clear in due time. GTA 6 launches Might 26, 2026 for PS5 and Xbox Sequence X|S, with a PC launch anticipated later.
Past GTA 6, it is rumored that Rockstar is bringing Crimson Lifeless Redemption II to Change 2 and launching a GTA 4 remaster.