GTA 6 could suffer ‘slippage’ but Take-Two insists there is no delay

There are nary plans to hold GTA 6, according to steadfast Take-Two, with the crippled slated to get aboriginal this twelvemonth alongside Mafia: The New Country and Borderlands 4.

After 2024 went by without immoderate caller trailer oregon update, there’s been a increasing anticipation of some benignant of delay for GTA 6.

The past clip we saw the highly-anticipated sequel was the archetypal trailer successful December 2023, and portion steadfast Take-Two has said has ever said it’s inactive scheduled for autumn 2025, Rockstar’s past suggests a hold is precise likely.

However, Take-Two has erstwhile again insisted that GTA 6 is inactive connected way to motorboat successful autumn 2025, successful what’s acceptable to beryllium a stacked twelvemonth for the publisher.

As noted successful its Q3 2025 net report, GTA 6 is listed for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in ‘fall of calendar 2025’. While this is simply a promising sign, it’s worthy bearing successful caput that it’s successful Take-Two’s interests to accidental it is connected track, successful bid to support shareholders happy.

In the aforesaid report, the steadfast says Mafia: The Old Country and Borderlands 4 are some connected way for 2025 arsenic well.

Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two, said: ‘Looking ahead, this calendar twelvemonth is shaping up to beryllium 1 of the strongest ever for Take-Two, arsenic we program to motorboat Sid Meier’s Civilisation 7 connected February 11, Mafia: The Old Country successful the summer, Grand Theft Auto 6 successful the fall, and Borderlands 4.’

Zelnick reaffirmed this affirmative outlook for GTA 6 successful an interrogation with IGN, though helium did admit that there’s ‘a hazard of slippage’.

When asked however assured helium was that Rockstar volition motorboat GTA 6 this year, Zelnick replied: ‘Look, there’s ever a hazard of slippage and I deliberation arsenic soon arsenic you accidental words similar absolutely, you jinx things. So we consciousness truly bully astir it.’

In the aforesaid fiscal report, Take-Two announced GTA 5 has present sold 210 cardinal copies, an summation of 5 cardinal units wrong the past 3 months of 2024. Meanwhile, Red Dead Redemption 2 has present surpassed 70 cardinal copies sold.

While immoderate mightiness beryllium reassured by the committedness to the merchandise window, the deficiency of a circumstantial day inactive volition apt interest publishers who are trying to debar releasing games wrong the aforesaid timeframe.

Many fishy that Nintendo is besides trying to debar it, fixed the antithetic June merchandise day speculated for the Switch 2.

Despite having a trailer to analyse, we inactive cognize precise small astir GTA 6. The crippled volition instrumentality spot successful the authorities of Leonida, which includes the instrumentality of Vice City, and volition seemingly spot 2 protagonists, successful pistillate pb Lucia and an unnamed antheral counterpart.

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