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Throughout a latest investor name for Rockstar Video games’ dad or mum firm, Take-Two, Grand Theft Auto 6 was stated to be on observe for a Fall 2025 launch. A brand new report means that rival gaming publishers are ready to see if Rockstar probably delays GTA 6 to 2026.
In response to Bloomberg, recreation publishers which have Fall 2025 titles of their very own “are ready so long as doable to decide to their launch dates” as a result of most of them do not wish to drop their releases anyplace close to GTA 6. Regardless, Ubisoft has beforehand stated that it isn’t afraid of dropping video games within the neighborhood of GTA titles, and {that a} massive launch like Grand Theft Auto 6 is sweet for the trade.
Rockstar does have a historical past of delaying its AAA titles relationship again to 2007. Grand Theft Auto 4, Pink Lifeless Redemption, Grand Theft Auto 5, and Pink Lifeless Redemption 2 all slipped from their initially scheduled launch home windows. The Bloomberg report notes that GTA 6 “has already missed a number of deadlines” earlier than Rockstar declared it was on schedule for 2025. That does not essentially imply that GTA 6 will miss that launch window, but it surely would not be out of the atypical if it occurs. The report additionally urged that “Rockstar is asking its writers to be much less crude towards transgender individuals and different minorities.”
Earlier this 12 months, Take-Two shared its perception that it would not matter when Grand Theft Auto 6 is launched. GTA 5 is among the many best-selling video video games in historical past with greater than 205 million copies bought since its preliminary launch in 2013. Anticipation for the sequel has solely grown for the reason that first trailer for GTA 6 debuted simply over one 12 months in the past. The prolonged delay between GTA 5 and GTA 6 additionally impressed a just lately listed parody recreation, which can or is probably not an actual title.