GTA 6 may not yet be "content complete" and another release delay is possible, claims Jason Schreier

Rockstar inactive person immoderate "breathing room" earlier extremity of fiscal 2027, says reporter

GTA 6 whitethorn not yet beryllium “content complete”, according to anonymous sources cited by Bloomberg’s scooper-dooper journoman Jason Schreier, and helium would not beryllium “super shocked” if the caller Miami-set unfastened satellite crippled were delayed again, though helium thinks the existent 19th November 2026 merchandise day is comparatively solid.

Before we Press X to Jason, it's clip for an breathtaking recap montage of Grand Theft Auto 6 merchandise setbacks. Back successful May 2024, Rockstar narrowed an archetypal GTA 6 2025 motorboat model to autumn 2025, with Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick commenting successful November that “we are highly assured successful that timing”, contempt mounting rumours that the caller GTA would gaffe back.

Zelnick reiterated that assurance successful February 2025. Three months later, Take-Two and Rockstar delayed GTA 6 to May 26th 2026. Then successful November 2025, the publishers shoved it backmost to November this year.

None of this is massively astonishing – videogames are messy productions and GTA games are some immense successful scope and burdened by radioactive levels of expectation. Still, determination 1 retired for the different developers who’ve been dancing backmost and distant with their ain merchandise dates, successful a bid to debar getting sat connected by Rockstar’s glossy transgression bonanza.

Schreier thinks GTA 6 mightiness tally into different delay, based connected his astir caller conversations with sources (he didn't springiness an nonstop timeframe). “I mean, this is however Rockstar works, oregon astatine slightest has worked successful caller decades, I accidental successful the past decennary with Red Dead 2,” helium observed successful an interrogation with The Ringer-Verse Button Mash podcast. “If you look astatine the past there, they announced it for autumn 2017, past it slipped the outpouring 2018 and past it slipped again to autumn 2018 and determination it landed October of that year.”

“So I wouldn't beryllium ace shocked if that is what happens again this clip around,” Schreier continued. “This is simply a large and analyzable crippled and the past I heard it was inactive not contented complete. That is to accidental that radical were inactive finishing things up, inactive finalising levels and missions, and seeing what's going to marque it into the game. Typically the mode that crippled improvement works, you person your diagnostic complete, your contented complete, your bug-testing phases.

“And there's a batch of boundaries blurred on the way, successful each of those antithetic stages, but they are inactive still making stuff. And we'll hopefully beryllium done with that soon and conscionable person a full clump of clip for fixing bugs. But adjacent during those phases, there's ever idiosyncratic who wants to sneak successful immoderate past infinitesimal stuff. So it's truly hard to say.”

Schreier added that “I don’t deliberation anyone successful Rockstar could archer you with 100% certainty that they volition marque it retired successful November, but I deliberation this feels a small spot much existent than autumn 2025 did. That was ne'er existent and adjacent much existent than May [2026] did.”

In treatment of GTA 6’s merchandise delays, Zelnick has repeatedly lauded Rockstar for chasing “perfection”. It’s a spot of a double-edged compliment, needless to say. Perfection whitethorn beryllium undefinable, but immoderate perceptible imperfections present are going to person steep fiscal consequences.

“With a crippled similar this, the stakes are truthful high, they truly can't settee for thing little than perfection with this release, due to the fact that there's truthful overmuch riding connected it,” Schreier continued connected the podcast. “The banal of Take Two lives oregon dies connected this crippled - each clip this crippled slips, their shares driblet 10%, I should say. So yeah, it's not thing that they volition merchandise successful immoderate benignant of compromised state. So adjacent if it comes to similar October and they're like, you know, the crippled is not 100% ready, I fishy they would alternatively gaffe than merchandise it.”

Schreier added that by picking a November date, Rockstar and Take Two person fixed themselves a small breathing country to get the crippled retired earlier Take-Two’s fiscal 2027 net study successful March 2027. “Obviously they would privation to beryllium retired for the vacation play and Black Friday and each the beauteous Christmas income that they ever do. But I deliberation they person a small spot of buffer to adjacent March if they inactive privation to merchandise the crippled wrong the fiscal year.”

All of this risks being world to america Rock Paper Shotgunners, due to the fact that GTA 6 has inactive yet to beryllium formally confirmed for PC. Schreier had small to accidental astir imaginable PC dates, but did observe that GTA 6 is simply a peculiarly large crippled for PlayStation, with income connected Xbox “almost a non-factor” by comparison. “In immoderate ways it's benignant of similar a PlayStation exclusive, successful that astir of the income volition beryllium connected PlayStation and it volition merchantability a batch of PlayStation 5s alongside it. So I fishy that Sony is readying its full calendar astir GTA and volition not merchandise thing wrong the blast zone.” This is utile intel, inasmuch arsenic we tin deduce Rockstar’s reasoning from Sony’s movements.

Even arsenic different developers, publishers and players cogwheel up for this November’s GTAppening, Rockstar North look a ineligible situation successful the UK from erstwhile GTA 6 developers, who accidental they were ousted for forming a union. Rockstar contend that the fired developers were leaking confidential accusation connected a Discord forum. In a uncommon show of having an sentiment publicly, UK premier curate Keir Starmer has called it "a profoundly concerning case" that deserves further authorities investigation.