Take-Two CEO Says 'Delays Pain Me — How Could They Not?' but Insists GTA 6's New 2026 Release Date Was About Making Sure Rockstar Achieves Its Creative Vision 'With No Limitations'

Back successful February, I asked Take-Two brag Strauss Zelnick however assured helium was astir hitting GTA 6’s past autumn 2025 merchandise window. He told maine helium felt “really bully astir it.” Three months later, possibly to no-one’s surprise, GTA 6 was delayed to May 26, 2026.

What changed successful those fewer months? That’s what I asked Zelnick successful a caller interrogation to coincide with Take-Two’s just-published fiscal results. He said that arsenic GTA 6 got person to launch, the request for much polish “became clear.”

“As we get person to completion of a rubric that’s seeking perfection, the needs oregon deficiency thereof, for continued polish go clear,” Zelnick said. “In this lawsuit determination was an accidental with a tiny magnitude of incremental time, we thought, to marque definite Rockstar Games achieves its originative imaginativeness with nary limitations. And I supported of people that approach.”

GTA 6’s hold extracurricular Take-Two’s existent fiscal twelvemonth into the adjacent is simply a stroke for the company’s numbers successful the abbreviated term, but Zelnick told maine helium inactive feels truly bully astir what helium has coming up, including Gearbox’s Borderlands 4, Hangar 13’s Mafia: The Old Country, and of people caller games successful its NBA 2K and WWE 2K franchises.

“I consciousness truly bully astir however Fiscal 26 looks sitting present today,” helium said. “And portion of course, delays symptom maine — however could they not? — the astir important happening to bash is to enactment your teams successful their hunt for perfection.”

Now, the evident adjacent question is simply a repetition of what I asked Zelnick backmost successful February: however assured are you that Rockstar volition deed May 26, 2026? This clip around, Zelnick sounded adjacent much certain:

“I deliberation historically erstwhile we acceptable a circumstantial date, mostly speaking, we've been precise bully astir reaching it.”

That, to me, is saying GTA 6 won't beryllium delayed without really saying it. Never accidental never, of course, but present GTA 6 has an existent merchandise date, it would beryllium a beauteous large daze if it slipped again.

The merchandise of GTA 6 Trailer 2 and Rockstar's accompanying info-dump has sparked each sorts of speculation astir what to expect from what is definite to beryllium the biggest video crippled of each time. Some GTA fans adjacent deliberation Liberty City whitethorn extremity up successful GTA 6 either astatine motorboat oregon arsenic post-launch DLC.

While we hold to find out, we’ve got plentifulness much connected GTA 6, including each the details we’ve discovered truthful far, a roundup of 70 marque caller screenshots, and the adept sentiment connected however GTA 6 volition look connected PS5 Pro.

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