Take-Two is ready for a reasonably 12 months, with Rockstar’s GTA 6 and Gearbox’s Borderlands 4 simply two of the large video games as a result of launch through the 2026 fiscal 12 months.
Reporting its most up-to-date financials, Take-Two insisted GTA 6 continues to be on the right track for launch throughout fall 2025, regardless of ongoing hypothesis that Rockstar might delay the sport into 2026.
Meanwhile, Take-Two’s publishing label, 2K, is ready to launch one other essential sport, Borderlands 4, throughout the identical fiscal 12 months (sooner or later between April 1, 2025 and March 31, 2026).
Is there a hazard, then, that GTA 6 will eat Borderlands 4’s lunch? Not so, in keeping with Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick. Speaking to Variety, Zelnick stated that whereas he couldn’t provide a launch date for GTA 6, the assured megahit received’t cross paths with Borderlands 4. “I believe it’s protected to say that we wouldn’t, and nobody would, stack up big releases unnecessarily,” Zelnick stated.
What does this imply for Borderlands 4’s launch date? Well, to ensure that it to get out of the best way of GTA 6 (assuming GTA 6 does certainly launch fall 2025), and to slot in with the subsequent fiscal 12 months, it will both should launch within the April to June 2025 quarter or the January to March 2026 quarter.
If GTA 6 does launch sooner or later between September and December subsequent 12 months, Take-Two will in all probability need no less than a three-month hole between it and Borderlands 4, forcing Borderlands 4 into late spring to early summer season 2025, or late winter to early spring 2026.
Borderlands 4 received’t be the one sport determined to keep away from being dragged into the black gap GTA 6 creates inside the online game business. Mafia: The Old Country, in growth at 2K’s Hangar 13, can be due out sooner or later in 2025. Then there are all the massive video games coming from different publishers. GTA 6 will in all probability be the most important online game launch of all time, so no different sport is protected from its gravitational pull. Even the may of Call of Duty, set to launch yet one more premium iteration round October or November 2025, can be sorely examined by GTA 6.
In different Take-Two information, the corporate has bought indie writer Private Division to an unknown purchaser within the wake of shuttering Roll7 and Intercept Games, saying it desires to give attention to its core and cellular companies going ahead. While just about all of Private Division’s dwell and unreleased video games will go to the brand new purchaser, Take-Two stated it would proceed to assist No Rest for the Wicked, the recently-released motion RPG from Moon Studios that is at present in early entry.
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