GTA 6: ‘Important’ tease suggests when lengthy look ahead to subsequent Grand Theft Auto recreation could be over

The lengthy look ahead to the following Grand Theft Auto recreation could possibly be dropped at an finish subsequent 12 months, its writer has teased.

Take-Two has not launched a brand new instalment within the acclaimed crime collection since 2013, with Grand Theft Auto V on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Numerous re-releases for subsequent consoles have helped it grow to be one of the crucial profitable leisure merchandise ever made, with greater than 185 million copies shipped eventually rely.

Its common on-line mode, the place gamers can spend actual cash on quite a few in-game gadgets, has additionally contributed to producing about $6bn (£4.7bn) in whole income.

Speaking at an investor name this week, Take-Two govt Lainie Goldstein teased the corporate was making ready for “record levels of operating performance” within the subsequent monetary 12 months – helped by a “significant inflection point”.

Fans had been fast to invest that it may imply Grand Theft Auto 6 may lastly arrive inside that timeframe, which is between subsequent April and March 2025.

Brendan Sinclair, managing editor of GamesIndustry.biz, informed Sky News that Mr Goldstein’s remark was “absolutely a hint” in the direction of the sport’s potential launch date.

“This is part of a pattern for Take-Two, because the parent company lets GTA developer Rockstar determine its own marketing plans about announcing release windows and the like,” he mentioned.

“At the same time, a new mainline GTA release is the sort of thing that produces a noticeable uptick in sales for the company and Take-Two definitely wants to give investors a heads up on that.”

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Rockstar’s video games typically fall sufferer to delays, nevertheless, given their sheer measurement and ambition.

GTA V and IV, in addition to cowboy epic Red Dead Redemption and its sequel, all received pushed again.

Mr Sinclair mentioned: “I believe Take-Two’s forecast is absolutely a hint about when to expect GTA 6, but I think that might reflect the company’s plan more closely than it reflects what will actually happen.

“Take-Two does have another large franchises,” he added, “however except it is planning to launch blockbuster hits from all of them in the identical 12 months, I do not assume they may obtain the practically $3bn in extra income they’ve forecast for fiscal 25 with out GTA 6.”

The firm and Rockstar have been principally silent in regards to the title, only confirming development last year.

Footage later leaked in what was one of the crucial high-profile cybersecurity breaches within the business’s historical past, however executives insisted it would not impact work on the game.

The footage appeared to substantiate it might be set in Vice City, a fictionalised model of Miami from earlier video games, starring two protagonists together with the primary playable feminine character within the collection’ historical past.

The lengthy wait means it has already grow to be the most important hole between new entries for the reason that collection started in 1997.