Friday, May 2nd 2025

Rockstar Announces Grand Theft Auto VI Delay to May 26, 2026
Rockstar has just announced that Grand Theft Auto VI will be delayed to May 26th, 2026, and will not be coming this Fall, as announced earlier. While no precise details were given, Rockstar has released a brief statement saying that the interest and excitement around the next Grand Theft Auto has been truly humbling for the entire team, and hope that Grand Theft Auto VI will live up to, and exceed those expectations.
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Rockstar
Grand Theft Auto VI is now set to release on May 26, 2026.
We are very sorry that this is later than you expected. The interest and excitement surrounding a new Grand Theft Auto has been truly humbling for our entire team. We want to thank you for your support and your patience as we work to finish the game.
With every game we have released, the goal has always been to try and exceed your expectations, and Grand Theft Auto VI is no exception. We hope you understand that we need this extra time to deliver at the level of quality you expect and deserve.
We look forward to sharing more information with you soon.
43 Comments on Rockstar Announces Grand Theft Auto VI Delay to May 26, 2026
AAA "We're working on THIS! Get excited!" game reveals all seem to get delayed by about a season change, IMHO.
or OMG, our programmers just finished playing cyberpunk 2077, and started asking why doesn’t GTA 6 look like that… (or the gta6 trailer, lol)… more time needed…
To quote BeatEmUps: "Cyberpunk has much larger issues that cannot just be fixed or patched out over time, infact I really do wish the game didnt release with all these bugs because they overshadow how bad the core game actually is."
It is not even a shadow of what it was claimed to become, did not even for 10% live up to the hype, all those comparision videos to GTA San Andreas on the PS2 still hold up because Cyberpunk is a big nothing burger of a game.
It pains/depresses me that consumers say anything possitive about this, it just sends all the wrong messages.
And we just saw it again with the Oblivion remaster, gaming is just screwed and the consumers are at fault.
Thank god we still have rare gems like Split Fiction....although they are going to make a movie about that soooo yeah.....
The AI is still god awful, there's no faction system, no mass transit system, no weather outside rain and one scripted sandstorm, and probably most crucially the game is not filled with deep branching quests. It feels more akin to a Skyrim in terms of complexity, the complete opposite of what you'd expect from a gritty Cyberpunk game.
Also, we aren't going to be told it. At best someone leaks it. The public reason given today is what most involved will say No way the PS6 is coming out next year. PS5 pro just came out in november of 2024. Sony will want to milk that bit for a minimum 3 years. At best 4. Yes a majority of developers aren't squeezing out all the performance possible out of the PS5 Pro and rely more on hardware to brute force things (this includes software like upscalers and dlss things) but sony isn't going to want to release new hardware architecture in 2 years. You believe GTA 6 will be in development hell and never release? I'd take that bet agaisnt you
I'm GLAD I wasn't one of the people originally excited for it.
Rather Rockstar take their time with GTA 6 and not become Cyberpunk 2.
There are some "masterpiece" games like RDR2 that I know personally 2 out of 15 of my friends have actually finished the rest got bored halfway through and put it down, including myself.
Cyberpunk is one of the best games ever made and it's not even a contest.
And Split Fiction is a rare gem? Lol :laugh::laugh::laugh:That garbage cannot even be played single player, so thanks , but no thanks. I love my offline games and the possibility to play without hassle.
If you want a rare gem, I would say Avowed fits right in. Now that's a game that I can recommend to anyone. I too got bored pretty quick with RDR2 after a couple of playing...I never understood the hype for that game, I found it the most boring and anost game ever tbh.
And about GTA VI... IV and V felt like movies rather than games. If R* want to make GTA VI worth something it should CONCEPTUALLY differ from them. I'm afraid they'll never do that and we'll be left with a "game" with a lot of sad things going on. Release date? Who cares at this point?