GTA 6 Has Some Major Competition In 2025, And It's Not What You Think

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is easily 2025's most anticipated game thanks to the huge amount of hype that's been building for it practically since the launch of. For many, it seems like a shoo-in for the best game of the year and the best-selling game of the year. That's not an unreasonable assumption, even just based on the game's initial reveal trailer view count on YouTube.

However, while wild theories and fan speculation have led to it garnering a significant amount of buzz, it still has a lot of healthy competition from other triple-A games. None of them felt quite up to the task of going toe-to-toe with until recently when a highly-anticipated game that seeks to blend all the best elements from the greatest games ever made finally got a release window of 2025.

release window has finally been confirmed, giving the millions of fans waiting eagerly for information an idea of when it will drop in 2025. With just this morsel of information, has become the biggest gaming event of 2025, if not of all time, with its first reveal trailer having already garnered over 227 million views on YouTube. It's a staggering achievement for a game that has been a long time coming and will almost certainly dominate the year.

To put into perspective just how muchwill dominate, Bloomberg reported that several developers are holding off on announcing when their game will release in 2025 until they know when Rockstar's next game will drop. This isn't particularly surprising, especially as several high-profile titles that were showcased at 2024's Game Awards showcase and are already planned for release in 2025 still haven't had a release date confirmed.

Meanwhile, the millions of fans who have watched the reveal trailer repeatedly are demanding to know when the next trailer is coming just so they can know anything about what will certainly be the best-selling game of the year. Whether or not people are fond of the franchise as a whole, it's hard not to admit that it has become as all-consuming as the Switch 2 whe