I don't know if you've heard, but that highly anticipated indie release, GTA 6, is set to release later this year, and it's probably going to be pretty popular. The release of a new GTA is one of those few blockbuster events in the games industry, so it's no shock that other publishers are wary of releasing too close to GTA 6.
Blizzard's former president, Mike Ybarra, recently said that "everyone will move their release out of the way" when Rockstar eventually confirms GTA 6's release date. And from the sounds of what multiple developers have told The Game Business, it sounds like that's bang on. An anonymous source (described as "the boss of one of the world's biggest game publishers") said, "Rockstar games always suck a lot of money and, more importantly, time out of the market," adding: "We don't want to be anywhere near that. We are working up multiple different plans for our titles."
