An established Rockstar Games insider is predicting that GTA 6 will be pushed back to 2026 despite fans eagerly waiting for VI to come out this year.
GTA 6 is currently scheduled to release in Fall 2025 despite going over a year without the game being shown off after the first trailer dropped.
Anticipation is at an all-time high with just months to go before the game’s release window with fans clamoring for more details to be revealed.
While leaks have already given players a good idea of what to expect in terms of map size, story, and characters, there’s still a lot that hasn’t been confirmed yet, such as a concrete release date.
Unfortunately, journalist Jason Schreier, who has broken several big stories about GTA 6 doesn’t believe Rockstar will meet its Fall 2025 date at all for one major reason.
Insider warns GTA 6 won’t make planned 2025 release
In a Bloomberg post going over predictions for video games in 2025, Schreier dismissed GTA VI’s planned Fall release.
“Publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. has said that the most-anticipated game of all time is on track for a fall 2025 release. But companies say a lot of things,” he said. “The next Grand Theft Auto is a huge and ambitious game, the pressure to make it great is inordinate and developer Rockstar Games has vowed to avoid forcing excessive overtime during the final months of development.”
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This decision to avoid forcing long overtime hours came after the studio received backlash for devs working extended periods and weekends to make sure they could ship Red Dead Redemption 2 in 2018.
“I expect that it will slip to 2026,” Schreier warned.
The insider had previously said that he would be “shocked” if GTA 6 hit its 2025 target, because Rockstar’s titles are always delayed a bit.
This warning comes days after industry analysts predicted that GTA 6 will make over $1 billion in pre-orders alone and will clear $3.2 billion in revenue in its first year.
So far, Rockstar hasn’t announced a delay for GTA 6 just yet, but even if it is pushed back, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says the game will be “worth waiting for.”
