GTA 6 delay won’t be decided until next year warns ex-Rockstar dev

A erstwhile Rockstar worker has said there’s small accidental we’ll perceive astir immoderate hold to GTA 6 this year, arsenic helium explains the accumulation of GTA 4.

GTA 6 is acceptable to beryllium the biggest crippled of the decade, possibly of each time, with fans desperately scrambling for hints of a caller trailer, portion the manufacture itself prays it volition pb to a boost successful console sales.

The large question is erstwhile it volition beryllium released. Rockstar Games proprietor Take-Two recently confirmed the sequel is connected way to motorboat successful autumn 2025, but assorted sources since person claimed it has been pushed backmost to 2026 – causing struggle among insiders.

A erstwhile Rockstar North worker has present fixed immoderate penetration into erstwhile delays person occurred successful the past astatine the studio, suggesting immoderate imaginable hold isn’t decided until overmuch person to the archetypal motorboat date.

Will GTA 6 beryllium delayed?

In a station connected Twitter, Obbe Vermeij, who worked astatine Rockstar North betwixt 1995 and 2009 arsenic a method manager crossed GTA 3, GTA: Vice City, GTA: San Andreas, and GTA 4,explained however the determination to hold GTA 4 happened 4 months earlier it was primitively acceptable to motorboat successful October 2007 (it yet came retired successful April 2008).

‘The determination to hold GTA 4 was made 4 months oregon truthful earlier the archetypal merchandise date,’ Vermeij wrote. ‘Any further and it’s hard to marque the call. Rockstar is astir apt not successful a presumption to find whether they volition deed 2025 until May-ish.’

While helium states that helium has ‘no wrong info’ connected GTA 6, Vermeij besides claims Rockstar volition not motorboat GTA 6 until the workplace is ‘100% blessed with it.’

‘GTA 6 volition merchantability for 10+ years and determination is nary contention to interest about,’ helium added. ‘They are not going to merchandise the crippled until they’re 100% blessed with it. No substance what it said successful the trailer.’

While Vermeij undoubtedly has immoderate penetration into Rockstar’s improvement culture, it’s worthy noting that the studio, and crippled improvement astatine large, has changed importantly since helium near the institution backmost successful 2009.

The longtime workplace president of Rockstar North, Leslie Benzies, departed the studio successful 2016 aft 15 years, portion Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser, who was a pb originative unit down GTA, left successful 2020. His member and co-founder, Sam Houser, is the existent president of Rockstar Games.

Judging by Rockstar’s past though, a hold for GTA 6 surely isn’t retired of the question. Along with GTA 4, its sequel GTA 5 missed its archetypal Q2 2013 merchandise day and was pushed backmost to September, portion Red Dead Redemption 2 was delayed twice, from the 2nd fractional of 2017 to October 2018.

If it’s hard to find whether GTA 6 volition really travel retired successful 2025, we mightiness beryllium amended disconnected speculating implicit erstwhile we’ll spot the adjacent trailer – with immoderate fans believing we could spot a caller glimpse successful October.

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