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GTA 6 release date won’t slip to 2026, Take Two assure - they’re “highly confident” about fall 2025Still no GTA 6 PC announcement, however
Still no GTA 6 PC announcement, however
Image credit:Rockstar Games
Image credit:Rockstar Games
A few months ago, the rumour took root thatGTA 6’s release date wouldslip back from 2025 to 2026. An anonymous insider averred that studio heads were “worried” about the newopen worldgame’s progress - hence, perhaps, Rockstar’s decision to mandatea full return to in-office work. Pshaw, say publishers Take-Two CEO. They announceda fall 2025 launch in Marchand have just doubled down on it intheir latest financial briefing, with CEO Strauss Zelnick subsequently going on the tellybox to say that Take-Two are “highly confident in the timing”, though he still has nothing to share about GTA 6 on PC.
“However, in the case of an extraordinary title, for which there are extraordinary expectations, it’s not really about bugs,” he went on. “It’s about creating an experience that no one’s seen before, and Rockstar Games seeks perfection in what they do. And perfection is indeed hard to measure, it really is more subjective than objective.”
“Well, there is slippage in the industry and we’re not immune from that,” Zelnick replied. “However, we narrowed the timing because we are highly confident in that timing.”
The fall 2025 release only covers the game’s console showing, of course. Take-Two have yet to spill the beans about the GTA 6 PC release date, but Zelnick did say in an earnings call last night that they’re feeling pretty good about PC support in general.
“The audience is going to show up if you have great properties, so we just have to make sure to be on an array of platforms,” he said, viaGamesradar. “If one platform diminishes in value, there’s always another one.
“We’re seeing great growth in PC right now, for example. I have been of the view that open formats would continue to grow and PC is an open format. I do think PC will continue to be a more and more important part of the console business going forward, and that isn’t complicated for us to support at all. So the bottom line is, we are selective about which platforms we support. We make the tech work when we can make it work, as long as the audience is big enough to make that worthwhile.”
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If I had been present during that CNBC interview, I would have asked Zelnick what he thinks of the fact thatGTA 5players are obsessively trying to predict the next GTA 6 marketing beatbased on the phases of the moon. This has blown up again on reddit lately because somebody’s realised that the Tom Petty song from the GTA 6 trailer, above, has the words “wait for the moon” in it.
I would have asked about this in the few seconds before somebody spotted the rando Britisher lurking behind the green screen and phoned security. “TELL ME ABOUT THE MOON, STRAUSS,” I would have bellowed, as huge men in tuxedos dragged me away into an unmarked van.
