Take-Two boss says 'we've never regretted' delaying a game following the Grand Theft Auto 6 pushback, says other studios might have better luck if they did the same thing once in a while

Jason Duval and a friend from Grand Theft Auto 6. They're standing side by side looking at the man's phone and seem surprised by what they see. .

The big news of the day, and the month so far, was the delay of Grand Theft Auto 6, from May 26 to November 19, 2026. That's more than a year away from today (which, notably, is roughly the same size of pushback seen in the first GTA 6 delay, which happened in May 2025), but Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Rockstar parent Take-Two Interactive, has no doubt that it's the right move—and thinks some other game companies would be well served by delaying their releases too.

"It's always painful when we slip a date, and we have done so occasionally in the past," Zelnick said during today's investors call. "And we've never regretted it in retrospect.