A former developer at Rockstar has expressed his delight on the many wild conspiracy theories surrounding Grand Theft Auto 6, insisting workers on the studio can be having fun with watching the neighborhood go off the deep finish.
Rockstar launched GTA 6 Trailer 1 to record-breaking viewership in December 2023, however it hasn’t launched a single asset within the 12 months since. The year-long await extra data has fueled more and more weird conspiracy theories about when Rockstar will launch GTA 6 Trailer 2.
These have included counting the holes in Lucia’s cell door internet, the bullet holes within the automotive from Trailer 1, and even registration plates as they hunt for GTA 6 clues. But chief among the many conspiracy theories is GTA 6’s ongoing moon watch, which was, remarkably, confirmed to have precisely predicted the date Rockstar introduced when it might launch GTA 6 Trailer 1 final December, however debunked as a touch on the launch date for Trailer 2.
Mike York, who labored as an animator at Rockstar New England for six years serving to to construct Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 earlier than leaving the corporate in 2017, is a giant fan of all of the fuss, taking to his YouTube channel to clarify that the builders at Rockstar can be getting a kick out of it too.
“All the builders over there are geeking out about it, belief me,” he mentioned. “When I used to be over there I’d have little conversations with individuals and be like, ‘Did you hear this particular person discovered this thriller?’ And they’d go, ‘Oh yeah!’ “
York additionally prompt that Rockstar is taking part in as much as the conspiracy theories, intentionally avoiding saying something concerning the recreation or when Trailer 2 can be launched in an effort to gas much more hypothesis throughout the neighborhood.
“They’re reaching and pulling and attempting to provide you with these actually cool theories to decipher when the subsequent trailer can be,” he mentioned of followers.
“Specifically Rockstar, they’re very secretive about what they do, and it is a actually cool tactic as a result of it creates attract and it creates thriller and it creates individuals speaking about it with out them having to do something. The extra they’re silent the higher it’s, as a result of the extra individuals can be antsy and wish to discuss it and have this sense of not understanding what is going on to occur.”
York went on to say that Rockstar is probably going resisting stress from its military of followers to announce the GTA 6 Trailer 2 launch date for this actual cause.
“They might simply launch the trailer date and be like, ‘Hey that is when the trailer’s popping out,’ however they do not do it. And they do not do it on objective as a result of it is a actually, actually good advertising and marketing tactic. If you consider it, it creates these actually cool theories.
“This brings the followers collectively. This is a very cool approach to get followers to speak about your recreation whenever you’re not releasing something but, in-between the occasions.
“All these theories are nice. They solely create hype, they create discuss, they create thriller behind the video games.”
Could Rockstar truly be inserting clues to issues like trailer launch dates in GTA Online photographs, because the moon concept has prompt? Probably not, York mentioned.
“Quite a lot of these items are like trolls,” he added. “It’s a thriller to nowhere. It’s simply to have you ever dig in there and seek for stuff and discover it. And regardless that it received’t result in one thing, it’s one thing that may deliver a chase and a journey and an journey for all these gamers for years to come back.
“As a developer, it was actually cool to sit down down and have a look at these feedback that folks go away and these conspiracy theories that they provide you with, as a result of lots of them are tremendous elaborate, they usually take lots of time to provide you with. It actually goes to indicate the eagerness behind all these followers behind this franchise, as a result of these persons are taking hours and hours and hours out of their day to attempt to go after these theories, and it’s actually enjoyable.”
It is outstanding that Rockstar has gone a yr with out following up GTA 6 Trailer 1 with any new data in any respect. With GTA 6’s fall 2025 launch window on PS5 and Xbox Series X and S nonetheless on the playing cards, in response to Take-Two, you’d count on Rockstar to pipe up sooner fairly than later.
While you wait to seek out out, IGN has way more on GTA 6 to take a look at, together with an ex-Rockstar dev who says the studio most likely received’t be capable to determine whether or not GTA 6 is delayed till May 2025, the boss of Take-Two’s coy response on whether or not GTA 6 is coming to PC, and the knowledgeable opinion on whether or not the PS5 Pro will run GTA 6 at 60 frames per second.
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.
