GTA 6 release date 'best-case scenario' is Holiday 2021 says ex-Rockstar employee

An ex-staffer at Rockstar has teased that Grand Theft Auto VI may not be as close to launch as we thought, with Rockstar continuing painstaking development on the title

[Profchaos]

It needs to be acknowledged and announced by rockstar first then delayed for a number of months which seems to only increase each game realese like GTA IV, v, max Payne 3, rdr rdr2, midnight club Los Angeles, la noire.

Actually everything they have made since San Andreas has faced a delay

[ilikestuff]

They really do delay all their games, I feel like when I hear a release date, I throw in 6 months and plan for that. If anything, maybe some day they will make good on their release date and I’ll be pleasantly surprised.

You know what would be awesome? If they secretly finished the game and dropped it on us out of nowhere in the summer. It would never happen but man that’d be cool

[Profchaos]

Yeah they know how to keep a secret so it would be great if they announced a game a week prior to launch they would still sell crazy numbers.

Even Thier PSP games were delayed liberty city stores basically recycled GTA 3s map and got a 3 months delay

[roadkillers]

Can’t blame Manhunt 2 on them

[Profchaos]

No can't blame them for manhunt 2 but I played both the final released version for PC, psp and the leaked uncut ISO for PS2 and well it was significantly lower budget than other rockstar releases of the time like GTA stories games. Still good but didn't really implement any new graphical features from later PS2 era rockstar games. I think they knew it would be a tough sell and gave it a smaller dev budget almost as if they wanted it leaked on purpose.

[bacrec1]

Even before that.

[Profchaos]

I think GTA 3 was even delayed due to 911 so yeah it goes way back

[fatbastard11]

My rule of thumb is if your website makes my phone freeze then the contents of your article are invalid.

[Si-Fly]

Please be set in the 80’s or better yet 70’s.

[traumadisaster]

They have the 50s covered with LA Noir, 1980-current with gta, 1900 with rdr so the 1960s and 70s would be left.

60s revolution and 70s would be cool, they could also do a Vietnam dlc.

[Mr_Writer85]

Wouldn't the warriors of covered the 70's?

[PoSTedUP]

They did a gta London 1961. Wasnt all that different from gta 1 n 2 from what i remember.

[Kiwi66]

LA Noire was set in the 1940's, "47 to be exact

[AnubisG]

It should be set today with all the crazy people in the past few years showing themselves to the world, it would be easy to make an interesting GTA6.

[jambola]

then 6 months later the online, then that's it for 6 years from rockstar

[King_Noctis]

This is not a reliable site for information. A lot of articles on it are click bait.

[RabbitFly]

Who in their right mind really thought that gta 6 would be here any sooner than that?

I know People want it, me as well. But rockstar is famous for taking forever. The game might be anounced at that point and then take 1-2 years to release. Wont be holding my breath, it would be a Nice suprise though.

[Skuletor]

GTA V launched in 2013, surely almost 7 years is long enough to make a sequel

[AnubisG]

It is but GTAV is printing money even today so they don't have a reason to create a new one.

[RabbitFly]

Which would have made sense in itself, but rockstar allocated most of their resources to finish of red dead redemotion 2 between that. Gta 6 was probably only in pre-production during the release of rdr, but that means full resources have only been working on gta 6 for a little over 1 year.

[Razmiran]

Most of the studios were busy with RDR 2 tho

[SprigganN4G]

September 2021 PS5/XSX exclusive. Q4 2022 an enhanced PC version (if you have the hardware to run it).

[contra157]

Nice

[meganick]

Whenever it releases I’m sure those on the political left will find the game very problematic.

[sampsonon]

2021? oh no! a copy and paste game with prettier graphics?
How about taking their time and just destroying us in 2023