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Lincoln Carpenter

Will GTA 6 keep its 2025 release date? 20 years of Rockstar delays say probably not

The two protagonists walk into a run, guns pointed.

I'm sure you don't need me to tell you, but people are pretty excited for Grand Theft Auto 6. At time of writing, Rockstar's lone GTA 6 trailer is sitting at a pretty 213 million views on YouTube, and all those millions of viewers are eagerly awaiting that unspecified day in fall 2025 when they'll be loosed on an unsuspecting Vice City—except for those of us on PC, who are still waiting on an official word from Rockstar for when we might expect our own release.

Of course, that fall 2025 release window is far from guaranteed. We're firmly in the age of the triple-A release delay, where it's safe to assume that a game's launch date is tentative right up to the hour it's due to unlock on Steam. Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Rockstar's parent company Take-Two, might be "highly confident" in GTA 6's launch timeline, but after looking at the last 20 years of Rockstar's release history, I can't say that's a confidence I share.

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