GTA 6 release year confirmed as Take-Two insists there is no delay

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Owner of Rockstar Games Take-Two insists on it GTA 6 coming out next year as GTA 5 sales pass yet another milestone.

Apart from last year’s trailerdeveloper Rockstar Games and publisher Take-Two have said almost nothing about blockbuster GTA 6.

Given that the trailer didn’t reveal much in the way of details, fans have continued to hunger for information, concocts elaborate theories on when a second trailer will be released.

The long silence has also led to speculation and rumors of delaysdespite Take-Two’s assurance that GTA 6 will be out at the end of 2025. Now, the company has once again insisted that its release plans for the game have not changed.

When is GTA 6 coming?

During Take-Two’s latest financial results covering the second quarter of the 2025 fiscal year (July 2024 to September 2024), Chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick did not mention any delay, and specifically stated that GTA 6 will be released sometime in the fall of 2025.

He also reiterated plans to launch Borderlands 4 and Mafia: The Old Country in fiscal year 2026. Both titles were revealed during this year’s Gamescom event and are currently scheduled for release in 2025.

While they lack a more concrete launch window, Zelnick also confirmed Amount that these games won’t be out in the same timeframe as GTA 6, no doubt to avoid cannibalizing sales. “I think it’s safe to say that we wouldn’t, and nobody would, stack up huge releases unnecessarily,” he said.

However, there hasn’t been any mention of another trailer for GTA 6, and while Take-Two seems confident that it will have the game out by 2025, that doesn’t mean it won’t ever be delayed.

A former Rockstar developer has previously claimed that such a delay would not be decided until next year. Plus, GTA 5 was originally supposed to be launched in the spring of 2013 but was postponed until September of the same year.

Speaking of GTA 5, in an earnings call (via The motley fool), it was revealed that sales of the games now exceed 205 million units, surpassing the company’s expectations. As this 11-year-old game continues to make money, Rockstar and Take-Two can afford to take their time with GTA 6.

Perhaps more surprising is the confirmation that the Borderlands franchise has benefited from this year’s live action film. Although the film was a critical and commercial flop, it actually boosted sales for the Borderlands games, according to Zelnick.

That said, he still called the film “disappointing” and suggested that Take-Two will be more careful about how it licenses its IPs going forward: “… we’ve licensed other titles, we’ll continue to selectively do that, but emphasis on words selectively.’

Elsewhere, Take-Two finally explained its intentions with subsidiary Private Division. Earlier this year there were reports of mass redundancies within the Private Divisionwith two of its studios were closed.

Take-Two was strangely vague about the whole thing, but now the company has confirmed that it has already been sold by the Private Division to an unnamed buyer, so Take-Two can “focus our resources on growing our core business and mobile business for the long term.”