Grand Theft Auto 6 is about to launch someday in 2025. Take-Two Interactive, in its earnings report for fiscal yr 2024 final week, narrowed down the sport’s launch window to the autumn of calendar 2025. Now, Take-Two CEO has mentioned he’s “extremely assured” of GTA 6’s deliberate launch timing.
Chatting with CNBC, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick mentioned the writer’s launch calendar, significantly specializing in Rockstar Video games’ GTA 6. The hotly anticipated recreation was first revealed with a trailer in December 2023 and is about to reach within the fall of subsequent yr. Zelnick mentioned that Rockstar guardian Take-Two was “extremely assured in that timing.”
“Effectively, there’s slippage within the trade and we’re not immune from that. Nonetheless, we narrowed the timing as a result of we’re extremely assured in that timing,” Zelnick advised CNBC.
The Take-Two CEO additionally talked concerning the deliberate launch window for GTA 6 and the way the writer and Rockstar Video games arrived at it. “There are parts that you could truly measure, for instance the variety of bugs in a title, and each one among us will be sure we now have as few bugs as doable earlier than we launch,” he mentioned.
“Nonetheless, within the case of a rare title, for which there are extraordinary expectations, it is not likely about bugs, it is about creating an expertise that nobody’s seen earlier than, and Rockstar Video games seeks perfection in what they do. And perfection is certainly onerous to measure, it truly is extra subjective than goal.” Zelnick added.
GTA 6 doesn’t but have a concrete launch date. The sport was first revealed with a trailer detailing its protagonists and setting after a slew of leaks in December 2023. Extra trailers for the sport that concentrate on its gameplay options ought to arrive forward of launch.
Final week, throughout its quarterly earnings name, Take-Two confirmed that GTA 6 would launch within the fall of calendar 2025. In April, Take-Two introduced that it might lay off about 5 p.c of its workforce, or round 600 workers. The writer mentioned it might additionally cancel a number of initiatives in improvement as a part of a cost-cutting plan.