Grand Theft Auto 6 continues to be set for launch in fall 2025, mum or dad firm Take-Two has insisted.
Reporting its third quarter ending December 31, 2024 monetary outcomes, the Rockstar proprietor listed GTA 6 for fall 2025 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S. It implies that for now at the least, GTA 6 continues to be on monitor for its beforehand introduced launch window and has not been delayed.
Speaking to IGN forward of the discharge of its monetary report, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick stated that whereas “there’s at all times a threat of slippage,” the corporate “really feel actually good about it [fall 2025].”
“Look, there’s at all times a threat of slippage and I feel as quickly as you say phrases like completely, you jinx issues,” Zelnick responded when IGN requested how assured he was that Rockstar will hit fall 2025 for GTA 6. “So we really feel actually good about it.”
When requested for an replace on how growth on GTA 6 goes, Zelnick saved his playing cards near his chest.
“Look, I feel the sport is eagerly anticipated each internally and externally,” he stated. “We know that Rockstar seeks perfection. I by no means declare success earlier than it happens. I’m fond of claiming conceitedness is the enemy of continued success, so we’re all operating scared and searching over our shoulders and we all know that the competitors will not be asleep. Our complete group is tremendous excited.”
The GTA 6 launch date is without doubt one of the hottest subjects in all of leisure, with rival publishers ready with bated breath for Rockstar to make its announcement. Earlier this week, EA CEO Andrew Wilson stated he was prepared to delay the brand new Battlefield out of the subsequent fiscal yr relying on the discharge timing of its opponents’ video games, a thinly veiled nod to the behemoth that’s GTA 6.
While its launch window stays agency, GTA 6’s much-wanted Trailer 2 has but to materialize. We’re now over a yr since Trailer 1’s launch, a niche that has brought on loads of feverish fan hypothesis. While you wait to search out out, IGN has rather more on GTA 6 to take a look at, together with an ex-Rockstar dev who says the studio most likely gained’t have the ability to determine whether or not GTA 6 is delayed till May 2025, Zelnick’s coy response on whether or not GTA 6 is coming to PC, and the professional opinion on whether or not the PS5 Pro will run GTA 6 at 60 frames per second.
Speaking usually about Rockstar, Take-Two stated Grand Theft Auto 5 has now sold-in an unimaginable 210 million models worldwide. GTA Online had a “sturdy” quarter, led by the Agents of Sabotage replace. GTA+ memberships elevated 10% year-over-year within the quarter.
Red Dead Redemption 2, in the meantime, has sold-in greater than 70 million copies. Take-Two famous it’s at present seeing its highest stage of concurrent gamers on Steam.
Take-Two has a busy 2025, with the just-released Civilization 7 from Firaxis, PGA Tour 2K25 and WWE 2K25 in March, Mafia: The Old Country in the summertime, GTA 6 within the fall, and Gearbox’s Borderlands 4 earlier than year-end.
“We are exceedingly optimistic concerning the industrial potential of our titles and imagine that they are going to have a transformative impact on our enterprise – and our business – over the long run,” Take-Two stated, earlier than including it stays “extremely assured” it is going to obtain “sequential will increase in, and document ranges of, web bookings in fiscal 2026 and 2027.”
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
