New Report May Help Narrow Down GTA 6 Release Window

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Word from Take-Two Interactive, parent company of Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar Games, may have inadvertently narrowed down the upcoming sequel’s release window from a mere “2025.” With Grand Theft Auto 6 not slated to release until next year, plenty of fans are eager for a clearer idea of when exactly they’ll be able to get their hands on Rockstar’s next big game, and a recent financial report may have given them just that.

Grand Theft Auto 6 is easily one of the most anticipated games on the horizon, if not of all time. Much of that anticipation can be attributed to the long road from the release of GTA 5 to the reveal of its followup ten years later, a period that saw countless rumors and almost as many leaks. Rockstar finally gave fans their first look at GTA 6 with a record-breaking reveal trailer this past December, along with confirming that it’s on track to launch sometime in 2025. While many fans are likely happy to have any release window after such a long wait, no doubt others will want to know as soon as possible where the game’s launch will fall within that timeframe.

The latest info from Take-Two Interactive suggests that, at the very least, Grand Theft Auto 6 won’t be out in early 2025, according to analysts Nick McKay and Michael Pachter, as reported by VGC. This week saw Take-Two revise its forecast for the 2025 fiscal year (April 2024 to March 2025) from its original $8 billion to a slightly more modest $7 billion. Given this change, and the fact that GTA 6 is likely to be a colossal money-maker for the company, the analysts surmise that this means that GTA 6 was once meant to launch in early 2025, but has almost certainly slipped out of that window.

Despite the implications of possibly falling out of the 2025 fiscal year, McKay and Pachter stress that it’s unlikely that the game will be delayed out of 2025 entirely, only that it will instead launch later in the year. A late 2025 launch might be what many fans were already expecting,