Grand Theft Auto VI is delayed to Novemb...

Followers should wait a bit longer to return to Vice Metropolis. Rockstar Video games has announced that Grand Theft Auto VI has been delayed as soon as once more to November 19, 2026. The open world sport was beforehand delayed from its 2025 launch window to Might 26, 2026 earlier this year.

“We’re sorry for including extra time to what we understand has been a protracted wait, however these further months will enable us to complete the sport with the extent of polish you could have come to count on and deserve,” Rockstar mentioned on its official X account. The brand new launch date delays the hotly anticipated sport by a complete six months from its earlier date.

Take-Two, GTA VI’s writer, doesn’t seem notably anxious in regards to the delay. “We mentioned after we set the final date, if a sport requires extra polish to be the absolute best model of itself, then we’ll give that sport extra time,” Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick mentioned in an interview with The Game Business. “We really feel actually good about this launch date. It’s in the identical fiscal yr, it occurs to be an awesome launch window, and naturally we’re actually supportive of Rockstar’s strategy.”

GTA V was originally released in 2013, and has been rereleased a number of occasions within the years that adopted for two generations of consoles. The video games stays extremely widespread, which is a part of the explanation Take-Two appears so sure in regards to the sequel. It helps that Grand Theft Auto On-line, a multiplayer mode for GTA V that can be downloaded as a standalone sport, is itself successful. “We proceed to produce content material to GTA On-line, and in reality we’ve had terrific outcomes there. And GTA+ continues to develop its membership. In truth, it’s had 20 % progress year-over-year. And GTA V has offered in additional than 220 million models,” Zelnick mentioned.

The lengthy anticipate a brand new GTA hasn’t been with out controversy. The sport leaked extensively in 2022, revealing that it could characteristic a feminine protagonist, a incontrovertible fact that was later confirmed within the first official trailer. And whereas Rockstar Video games has reportedly attempted to enhance its firm tradition since GTA V got here out, the developer is at present being accused of union busting within the UK.