GTA 6 release won't be delayed again now that it has a "specific date", assures Take-Two boss

Also hails 2nd GTA 6 trailer's interaction connected fashionable culture

Take-Two Interactive's CEO Strauss Zelnick has served up immoderate dutiful, investor-pleasing sentiments astir GTA 6's hold from 2025 merchandise to a 26th May 2026 motorboat date. Rockstar, helium says, are "seeking perfection", and "consumer anticipation is unprecedented". As such, "affording Rockstar further clip for specified a groundbreaking task is simply a worthy investment".

All that's from a blistery premix of Take-Two Interactive's latest quarterly fiscal results and an interrogation with our colleagues/primordial mythical adversaries astatine the Ice Giant Network. Speaking to IGN, Zelnick commented that the request for "continued polish became clear" arsenic the crippled neared completion, and that "there was an accidental with a tiny magnitude of incremental time, we thought, to marque definite Rockstar Games achieves its originative imaginativeness with nary limitations."

Regarding the inevitable question of whether GTA 6 volition beryllium delayed again, helium added that "historically erstwhile we acceptable a circumstantial date, mostly speaking, we've been precise bully astir reaching it." Which is perchance much existent successful console land: GTA 5 was pushed backmost erstwhile connected console from its archetypal outpouring model to 17th September 2013, but the PC mentation didn't get till 14th April 2015.

In the net presentation, Zelnick reiterated that "affording Rockstar further clip for specified a groundbreaking task is simply a worthy investment". He besides threw successful a spot of trivia. Apparently, GTA 6 "began improvement successful earnest successful 2020" aft Red Dead Redemption 2. The caller 2nd GTA 6 trailer is supposedly the "biggest video motorboat of each time, with implicit 475 cardinal views successful 24 hours". Spotify streams of the opus from that trailer, Hot Together by the Pointer Sisters, person "surged by 182,000%, erstwhile again proving Rockstar's quality to power fashionable culture".

This is astir apt my 9am encephalon talking, but I find this past constituent benignant of provocative inasmuch arsenic close now, I'm scratching my caput a small astir the specifics of GTA's taste impact. It is an undeniable power connected fashionable culture, beryllium it successful the signifier of motivation panics astir kiddies playing transgression simulators, oregon successful however its municipality sandbox has influenced unfastened satellite designers, oregon successful the immense grade of the modding community, oregon - yes - successful however it has popularised definite songs.

That said, and for each the game's stature, GTA contiguous is innately and proudly derivative. It skims the froth of American life, sometimes satirically successful the signifier of, say, Bleeter, and often affectionately successful the signifier of nods to celebrated movies and TV shows - GTA 6's prima mates Jason and Lucia are influencer incarnations of Bonnie and Clyde. One effect of that is simply a definite hollowness.