Followers should wait a bit longer to return to Vice Metropolis. Rockstar Video games has introduced 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 Could 26, 2026 earlier this yr.
“We’re sorry for including extra time to what we understand has been a protracted wait, however these additional months will enable us to complete the sport with the extent of polish you will have come to anticipate and deserve,” Rockstar mentioned on its official X account. The brand new launch date delays the hotly anticipated sport by an entire six months from its earlier date.
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Grand Theft Auto VI will now launch on Thursday, November 19, 2026.
We’re sorry for including extra time to what we understand has been a protracted wait, however these additional months will enable us to complete the sport with the extent of polish you will have come to anticipate and… pic.twitter.com/yLX9KIiDzX— Rockstar Video games (@RockstarGames) November 6, 2025
Take-Two, GTA VI’s writer, doesn’t seem significantly apprehensive in regards to the delay. “We mentioned once 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 amazing launch window, and naturally we’re actually supportive of Rockstar’s strategy.”
GTA V was initially launched in 2013, and has been rereleased a number of instances within the years that adopted for 2 generations of consoles. The video games stays extremely fashionable, 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 actually we’ve had terrific outcomes there. And GTA+ continues to develop its membership. Actually, it’s had 20 % progress year-over-year. And GTA V has offered in additional than 220 million items,” Zelnick mentioned.
The lengthy anticipate a brand new GTA hasn’t been with out controversy. The sport leaked extensively in 2022, revealing that it will characteristic a feminine protagonist, a incontrovertible fact that was later confirmed within the first official trailer. And whereas Rockstar Video games has reportedly tried to enhance its firm tradition since GTA V got here out, the developer is presently being accused of union busting within the UK.
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