Grand Theft Auto 6 might be launched within the fall of 2025, in keeping with writer Take-Two Interactive. The discharge window — nevertheless obscure — is a narrowing of what Take-Two Interactive had beforehand shared when it put Grand Theft Auto 6 merely throughout the 2025 calendar yr. The autumn 2025 launch window is smart, inserting the much-anticipated sport proper earlier than the vacations.
“We’re extremely assured that Rockstar Video games will ship an unparalleled leisure expertise, and our expectations for the industrial impression of the title proceed to extend,” Take-Two Interactive said in its most recent earnings report. “Wanting forward, we consider that our Firm is poised to attain new ranges of success, and we anticipate to ship sequential development in Web Bookings for Fiscal 2025, 2026, and 2027.”
After all, there’s at all times the prospect for a delay. Rockstar Video games is notorious for delaying its video games to make sure a severe degree of polish; Crimson Useless Redemption 2 was publicly delayed thrice, whereas Grand Theft Auto 5 had a significant delay in 2013. Take-Two Interactive’s willingness to publicly slim the discharge window as a part of its fiscal report may sign confidence in Rockstar’s capacity to satisfy that date.
Grand Theft Auto 6 was formally revealed on Dec. 4, a day sooner than anticipated after its reveal trailer leaked online. The sport is ready in Vice Metropolis, Grand Theft Auto’s Miami — a location the sport centered on with 2002’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice Metropolis and 2006 prequel Grand Theft Auto: Vice Metropolis Tales. These video games have been set within the Nineteen Eighties, however Rockstar Video games has set Grand Theft Auto 6 within the modern-day, centering on a Bonnie and Clyde-esque duo in Jason and Lucia, the latter of which is the sequence’ first playable feminine protagonist.
Grand Theft Auto 5 remains to be a success, too, with Take-Two Interactive reporting 5 million copies offered inside its final monetary quarter, totaling 200 million video games offered since its launch.
Take-Two Interactive additionally reported it expects to succeed in $5.55 billion to $5.65 billion in web bookings in fiscal yr 2025. Forward of the submitting, in April, Take-Two Interactive laid off 5% of its employees, or about 600 staff. (Regardless of the layoffs, Take-Two Interactive mentioned it has expanded its employees.) It additionally canceled a number of tasks — none of which have been “core franchises” — but it surely nonetheless has 40 video games in its pipeline all through fiscal yr 2027, Take-Two Interactive president Karl Slatoff mentioned throughout the earnings convention name.