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Rick Lane

Publishers 'don't want to be anywhere near' Grand Theft Auto 6 when it launches: 'It's proving to be very stressful'

Gta 6 trailer.

Grand Theft Auto 6 is still months away from launch, if not longer, but it's already causing ripples in the games industry. Numerous major publishers are fretting over precisely when Rockstar's latest crime epic will arrive, so they can schedule their games around its release and thus avoid the financial black hole they believe it will create.

These reports come from newly minted podcast The Game Business (via Eurogamer), hosted by former gamesindustry.biz editor Christopher Dring. Dring spoke to numerous individuals in prominent positions at various publishers, and while none of them would put their names on the record, they all shared similar anxieties about the impact Grand Theft Auto 6 might have on their businesses.

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