GTA 6 has formally been delayed, after all of the hypothesis it could be and Rockstar sticking to that obscure Fall launch window for ages. It’s going to now be dropping on Might 26, 2026.

Yep, late 2025’s huge behemoth now is not coming till subsequent 12 months, so we’ll all have to seek out one thing else to completely eat our lives and/or save the video games trade within the interim.

“We’re very sorry that that is later than you anticipated,” Rockstar wrote in a Newswire submit asserting the delay, “The curiosity and pleasure surrounding a brand new Grand Theft Auto has been actually humbling for our total workforce. We wish to thanks in your assist and your endurance as we work to complete the sport.

“With each recreation we now have launched, the purpose has at all times been to attempt to exceed your expectations, and Grand Theft Auto VI is not any exception. We hope you perceive that we want this further time to ship on the stage of high quality you count on and deserve.

“We stay up for sharing extra data with you quickly.”

As, I alluded to, previous to this Rockstar had been sticking to a Fall 2025 launch window from the sport, with Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick having reponded to IGN asking concerning the probability of the sport making that window by saying: “Look, there’s at all times a danger of slippage and I feel as quickly as you say phrases like completely, you jinx issues. So we really feel actually good about it.”

We’ll should see what impact this date change has on the remainder of the sport’s trade’s launch slate, given everybody had been scrambling to keep away from having their new video games blown away by Rockstar’s child. “GTA 6 is principally an enormous meteor and we’ll simply keep away from the blast zone,” one studio boss mentioned of the scenario in an interview with THe Sport Enterprise eariler this 12 months, “We are going to nudge our releases again or ahead three weeks to keep away from it. In fact, the issue is everybody goes to do the identical. So three to 4 weeks earlier than or after GTA 6, you’re going to get a load of video games dropping content material in what they consider would be the secure zone.”