The Grand Theft Auto 6 launch date stays on monitor for the autumn of calendar 2025.
Writer Take-Two confirmed the sport’s deliberate launch window hasn’t modified as a part of its second quarter monetary outcomes on Wednesday.
The primary Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer was launched in December 2023, confirming a deliberate 2025 launch date. It racked up greater than 100 million views in simply two days, surpassing the lifetime views of GTA 5‘s debut trailer and making it one of many most-viewed trailers in YouTube historical past.
Updating its monetary steering in Might, Take-Two narrowed the sport’s launch window from calendar 2025 to the autumn of subsequent 12 months.
Throughout a subsequent interview with CNBC, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick mentioned the method of deciding product launch dates, and the way firms know when the time is correct from a artistic perspective.
“There are parts that you may truly measure, for instance the variety of bugs in a title, and each considered one of us will make certain we’ve as few bugs as attainable earlier than we launch,” he stated.
“Nonetheless, within the case of a rare title, for which there are extraordinary expectations, it’s probably not about bugs, it’s about creating an expertise that nobody’s seen earlier than, and Rockstar Video games seeks perfection in what they do. And perfection is certainly onerous to measure, it truly is extra subjective than goal.”
Rockstar has a historical past of asserting after which delaying sport launch dates. Maybe with this in thoughts, Zelnick was requested how assured he was in hitting Grand Theft Auto 6’s fall 2025 launch window.
“Effectively, there may be slippage within the business and we’re not immune from that,” he replied. “Nonetheless, we narrowed the timing as a result of we’re extremely assured in that timing.”
