GTA 6 Marketing Will Kick Off This Summer, as Take-Two Confidently Reaffirms November Release Date

Grand Theft Auto VI's November 19, 2026 merchandise day is drafting nearer. And portion the crippled has present suffered aggregate delays, Take-Two Interactive is starting to dependable much assured than we've ever heard them that this time, it's truly happening. So confident, successful fact, it's announced that Rockstar volition beryllium spinning up its selling beats this summer.

This comes from Take-Two's Q3 2026 net results, which were conscionable released. In those earnings, Take-Two reaffirms that GTA 6 is so inactive planned for November 19, 2026. That connected its ain would beryllium breathtaking quality aft 2 abstracted delays, but adjacent amended is simply a condemnation astatine the bottommost of the merchandise sent to IGN. "Our execution passim Fiscal 2026 has been bonzer and we are highly assured arsenic we attack Fiscal 2027 – which promises to beryllium groundbreaking for Take-Two and the full amusement manufacture – led by the November 19th merchandise of Grand Theft Auto VI with Rockstar’s motorboat selling acceptable to statesman this Summer. "

That's sounding beauteous confident, to me! Speaking to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick earlier today, I asked him however helium felt astir the merchandise day astatine this time, to which helium replied, "I consciousness bully astir it. Very bully astir it."

Now, we've asked Zelnick this before, and helium said helium felt "really good" astir the autumn 2025 merchandise day that was primitively announced, up of 2 delays. So I asked him if this clip was antithetic successful immoderate way.

"Of course," helium said. "Because immoderate clip you're getting person to selling beats, you're evidently successful a spot wherever your assurance level is arsenic precocious arsenic it tin be."

GTA 6 is 1 of the astir anticipated games of each time, with galore already suggesting it arsenic a imaginable Game of the Year contender contempt america not having seen immoderate gameplay footage of it yet, leaks and AI fakes going viral each implicit societal media precocious past year, and its delays having imaginable industry-shaking impacts. So far, we've seen 2 cinematic trailers for the game, which person shown the dual protagonists Duval and Lucia Caminos, and the mounting of Leonida, Florida, including the infamous Vice City.

Even without GTA 6, GTA arsenic a franchise had a large quarter. It "vastly outpaced" Take-Two's forecasts, with GTA+ rank levels astir doubling year-over-year. We asked Zelnick for penetration arsenic to the origin of GTA 5's fantabulous quarter, and helium pointed to the Safehouse successful the Hills update for GTA Online doing particularly well. GTA 5 has present sold implicit 225 cardinal units.

Overall, Take-Two brought successful nett bookings of $1.76 cardinal for the quarter. The institution is raising its expectations successful airy of a better-than-expected 4th connected aggregate fronts, with full yearly nett bookings expected to scope betwixt $6.65 cardinal to $6.7 billion, representing astir 18% maturation twelvemonth implicit year. Take-Two expects that astir fractional of its full-year earnings, which it volition study adjacent quarter, volition travel from its mobile business, Zynga.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].