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GTA 6 Release Date News: What to Expect

January 8, 2025: We checked for the latest GTA 6 release date news.

When is GTA 6 coming out? Given how many years it takes to create open worlds of the same caliber as GTA 5, it’s no surprise that Rockstar Games has already spent years developing GTA 6. Rockstar prefers to keep its secrets close to its chest until close to the end of development, but Take-Two has confirmed when exactly we can expect it to arrive.

The Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has certainly been a long time coming. Early gameplay leaks of GTA 6 surfaced online last year, along with lines of source code and development footage for the open-world game. There’s been plenty of rumors and speculation surrounding the release date since then, but we finally have confirmation of the GTA 6 launch window, story, and setting. Here’s all the latest on the GTA 6 release date, including trailers and news, right here on PCGamesN.

GTA 6 Release Date Window

The GTA 6 release date is fall 2025. This is the release window for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5, while the GTA 6 PC release is likely to arrive in late 2026.

Publisher Take-Two confirmed the release date during its final quarterly earnings call for fiscal year 2024. Despite ongoing delay rumors, the publisher reiterated this release window during the latest Take-Two earnings report, which forecasts the GTA 6 release date as “fall of calendar 2025.”

The release date announcement includes a statement from Rockstar Games founder Sam Houser: “Grand Theft Auto 6 continues our efforts to push the limits of what’s possible in highly immersive, story-driven open-world experiences. We’re thrilled to be able to share this new vision with players everywhere.”

While the first GTA 6 trailer confirmed the release year is 2025, a follow-up press release from Rockstar PR clarified that this is a console-specific release date. Referring to Rockstar Games’ road map for Red Dead Redemption 2, we expect the GTA 6 PC release date will fall one year later.

GTA 6 PC Release Date

Zelnick addressed the GTA 6 PC release date directly during the TD Cowen 52nd Annual Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference. “Rockstar has an approach to platforms which we’ve seen before, and they will make more announcements in due time,” Zelnick said.

“I do believe that the right strategy for our business is to be where the consumer is, and historically what this company has done is address consumers anywhere they are, on any platform that makes sense, over time.”

The company said that “active development for the next entry” of the crime game is “well underway” and that it will enter its “next phase of growth in fiscal 2025.” While this may be subject to change, GTA 6 is unquestionably the property that will allow Take-Two to meet its target of “over $8 billion in net bookings and over $1 billion in adjusted unrestricted operating cash flow.”

Take-Two’s stock received a massive jump in share price as a result of the GTA 6 launch announcement, and we expect that trend to continue as more is revealed. Industry analysts claim that GTA 6 is projected to generate over $1 billion in pre-order sales alone.

GTA 6 Game Pass

Whether we’re talking about the console or PC release, there is some certainty that Grand Theft Auto 6 won’t be coming to Game Pass on day one. In a recent interview with GameIndustry.biz, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick confirmed that Take Two wouldn’t be bringing any games to the service on day one.

GTA 6 Delays

While GTA 6 delays are at the forefront of any fan’s mind, there is currently no confirmation that a delay is planned. Instead, Rockstar remains committed to the GTA 6 release window. As of January 2025, the launch is still on track following the Take-Two quarterly earnings report.

Rockstar talent acquisition specialist Georgio Jankowski also put the call out for applications on LinkedIn, claiming that 2025 is “shaping up to be one of the most exciting years ahead here at Rockstar.” While it’s not enough to quash delay rumors, Jankowski’s post suggests internal confidence in that 2025 release date.

However, that’s not to say a GTA 6 delay hasn’t been raised by sources several times in the past. A recent GTA 6 actor interview hinted at “another situation happening in that world that may be coming out in 2025, 2026”, sparking fresh speculation that the release date might slip. However, the most significant GTA 6 delay rumors came from a staff member at GTABase, a dedicated Rockstar news site.

“GTA VI has been internally delayed by Rockstar Games and they’re already decided on the early to mid 2026 release window,” it was alleged on X (formerly Twitter). While this information was purportedly sourced from “multiple devs across two studios,” Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier assured fans this GTA 6 delay was not true.

A Kotaku report in March 2024 also suggested that Rockstar may miss its release window “as production reportedly falls behind.” Again, Schreier refuted these claims as an “overblown concern” after consulting his own sources. According to Kotaku’s source, any delay to 2026 would be considered a “fallback plan.”

GTA 6 is also exempt from the recently announced videogame voice actor strike. The SAG-AFTRA website cautions talent attached to the project with the following notice: “While not struck, this game is produced by a struck company.” Talent attached to GTA 6 may continue to work on the project, minimizing the chance of a prospective delay.

GTA 6 Trailers

The first GTA 6 trailer was released earlier than anticipated due to widespread leaks. It was originally scheduled to drop on Tuesday, December 5, 2023, but Rockstar Games made it available to view a day earlier due to the leak.

Trailer 1 is approximately 91 seconds long and verifies rumors that the series is returning to Vice City. It features several prominent GTA 6 locations, including the Malibu Club and Ocean Drive. We see our two main protagonists, Lucia and Jason, thrown together in unusual circumstances and forced to work together in a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde situation.

Now that it’s been a year since the first GTA 6 trailer dropped, the latest speculation is that trailer 2 might drop in the next PlayStation showcase. This follows further allegations that Sony has now secured marketing rights for GTA 6.

A new trailer was hotly anticipated after a GTA 6 trailer playlist suddenly appeared on the official YouTube channel, but this turned out to be an automatically generated playlist.

A further GTA 6 trailer 2 release date theory convinced some fans that a surprise trailer drop was coming in late November. This so-called ‘moon theory’ tracks the phases of the moon as it appears in GTA Online promotional material. While this theory has since been debunked, it’s worth bearing in mind that Rockstar has hidden easter eggs for GTA 6 in previous GTA Online updates.

GTA 6 Leaks

On September 18, 2022, 90 videos showing off 53 minutes and 26 seconds worth of test footage were leaked in one of the biggest data breaches in history. In the early test footage, we can see the player taking the role of a male and a female character as part of a Bonnie and Clyde-like duo named Jason and Lucia, as reported by Bloomberg earlier that year.

One of the standout clips shows the player controlling Lucia as she and Jason hold up a diner, like the couple at the end of Pulp Fiction. Other videos show Lucia standing on a street corner, watching the traffic go by in broad daylight, while Jason visits a nightclub. Since the footage became public, the GTA 6 leaker has been arrested.

A further GTA 6 leak occurred on TikTok just days before the GTA 6 trailer release date, which included a brief glimpse of the map. However, this leak was quickly overshadowed by the GTA 6 trailer itself, which leaked on X (formerly Twitter) less than 24 hours prior to the official release. Rockstar Games responded by releasing the trailer wholesale shortly after the discovery of the leak, stating, “Our trailer has leaked, so please watch the real thing.”

GTA 6 News

Despite the major setback of leaked game footage, Rockstar released a statement to clarify that while it is “extremely disappointed” that early footage has leaked, work on “the next Grand Theft Auto will continue as planned”. The developers also assure fans that they “will update everyone again soon and, of course, will properly introduce you to this next game when it is ready”.

At the very least, Rockstar has been developing GTA 6 since the community update on February 4, when Rockstar confirmed that “active development for the next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series is well underway”. Whatever it is, we can rest assured it will be “special”. As part of the studio’s announcement that it was winding down support for Red Dead Online, Rockstar confirmed that more resources were being diverted to “the next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series” and that it wants to ensure the new game “exceed players’ expectations.”

Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick suggests, in a 2019 interview with GamesIndustry.biz, that better development tools and bigger teams could shorten the gaps between game releases. It could also mean that “games may be a bit shorter” while still being robustly supported post-launch.

Mitigating GTA 6 crunch time is another reason the next GTA 6 could be shorter. As Kotaku says in its report in 2020, “One plan that management has laid out for the next game, a new entry in the Grand Theft Auto series, is to start with a moderately sized release (which, by Rockstar’s standards, would still be a large game) that is then expanded with regular updates over time, which may help mitigate stress and crunch”.

Rockstar employees are speaking out about the positive changes the company is making after the scrutiny it attracted following the crunch time over Red Dead Redemption 2.

GTA 6 Story

The GTA 6 trailer gave us concrete details surrounding the GTA 6 story. It’s quickly apparent that

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