GTA 6

GTA 6: here's everything we know so far GTA 6 is currently in development and, according(opens in new tab) to developer Rockstar Games, work on it is "well underway". Now that we know GTA 6 is a real game that we will one day play after years of rumors and speculation, the next big question is: when will it be released? That we don't know. In fact, at the moment we don't know all that much about GTA 6 at all.

Aside from its release date being a mystery — though it's safe to say it's not any time soon — we're also still waiting to hear where and when the game will be set and what story it'll tell. Fortunately, the GTA 6 fan community is enthusiastic and there's no shortage of rumors floating around that could hint at what we should expect. Rockstar Games isn't the kind of studio to make announcements before it's ready, so it feels like it's likely going to be a little while before we get any significant official details on GTA 6. In the meantime, GTA 5 on PS5 and Xbox Series X has at least given us some insight into how sharp the game could look on the latest generation of consoles. Want to find out more about the next Grand Theft Auto? Read on for everything we know about GTA 6 so far. Games like GTA to play while waiting for GTA 6 GTA 6: cut to the chase What is GTA 6? The next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series When is GTA 6 coming out? TBC What platforms will GTA 6 release on? TBC but likely Xbox Series X|S, PS5 and PC Where will GTA 6 be set? TBC, but there are plenty of rumors (scroll down for more) While Rockstar Games has finally announced it's working on GTA 6, it hasn't revealed when we'll get our hands on it. But, there have been plenty of reports and rumors that could hint at when we'll get our hands on Grand Theft Auto 6. Very few of them suggest it'll be anytime soon. While Rockstar Games has finally announced it's working on GTA 6, it hasn't revealed when we'll get our hands on it. But, there have been plenty of reports and rumors that could hint at when we'll get our hands on Grand Theft Auto 6. Very few of them suggest it'll be anytime soon. Rockstar Games has confirmed that GTA 6 is in "active development" and, according to a Kotaku report, this "new entry in the Grand Theft Auto series" was in early development as of April 2020. Kotaku's report claimed this new installment is planned to be a "moderately sized release" (so, probably still pretty big) which will be "expanded with regular updates over time". So, the game may be further along in development than we expected. However, while the Kotaku report didn't give us an idea of when GTA 6 will release, publisher Take-Two Interactive's marketing budget may have given us our most solid GTA 6 release date hint. As reported by VentureBeat(opens in new tab), Take-Two's 10-K SEC filing from 2020 (which lays out financial plans for the next five years) shows that the company expects to spend $89 million on marketing between April 2023, and the end of March 2024 - that's a huge spike and, as the report points out, more than half the marketing budget expected for any other fiscal year over the next decade This led industry analyst Jeff Cohen to predict that this spike is because GTA 6 is expected to release within this period (which now looks likely). In a note(opens in new tab) to investors, included in VentureBeat's report, Cohen pointed out that previous marketing budgets have predicted the releases of other big releases from Take-Two Interactive, including Red Dead Redemption 2. If this prediction is correct then we would expect to see GTA 6 release sometime between April 2023 and March 2024. Originally this spike was expected to take place in the fiscal year 2023, however, it's been pushed back to 2024. If it is GTA 6 that has caused this spike, this would suggest that a delay has occurred. What's more, in a press release(opens in new tab) detailing Take-Two Interactive’s deal to buy mobile game company, Zynga, a section on "Strategic Rationale and Stockholder Value Creation" contained a note stating that: "Looking ahead, the combined company is expected to deliver a 14% compound annual growth rate… over the three-year period from Take-Two's Fiscal Years 2021 through 2024." In response to that, an analyst from investment banking firm Jefferies, quoted by Stephen Totilo of Axios, said: "there are only a handful of titles that can...provide management with the confidence to put out such a strong guidance; we believe there is at least one Rockstar IP set to be released by FY24." Now that Rockstar Games has confirmed it's working on a new GTA, it seems likely that the spike is because of this new title, which could put GTA 6's release date between April 2023 and March 2024. This 2024 spike almost lines up with leaker Tom Henderson's GTA 6 release date prediction. The notable leaker, who is primarily known for his (mostly) accurate leaks on Battlefield and Call of Duty, posted a video sharing a bunch of alleged GTA 6 details. In the video, Henderson predicts that GTA 6 isn't going to release until between 2024 and 2025, based on his sources. There are a few reasons for this, according to Henderson. The biggest is that apparently, Rockstar Games has been focusing heavily on "employee wellbeing", with the developer aiming to avoid crunch culture. Henderson also claimed that Rockstar didn't want to announce the game until it was confident that it will hit its release date, with an aim to avoid any delays, but wants to do so without making employees work extremely long hours to meet a deadline. In addition, Henderson claims that GTA 6 will only release on PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC. Given the current PS5 and Xbox Series X shortages, Rockstar Games is apparently waiting until there is a "big enough market" for these consoles - in other words, until the majority of players can actually get their hands on them. The third key reason Henderson gave for this predicted 2024/2025 release date is the popularity of GTA 5, claiming that Rockstar would likely not want to release GTA 6 while its predecessor is still so successful. Henderson's prediction has since been corroborated by Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier, who said that Henderson's claims "matches up with what I’ve heard". A release sometime in 2024 looks like a pretty safe bet, then, but one leaker claims this could be wishful thinking. Creator of Rockstar Mag Chris Klippel (who has accurately leaked Rockstar Game news before) claims that while the developer has reached an important milestone in development, and will likely reveal GTA 6 properly before the end of 2022, he doesn't expect Grand Theft Auto to release before the end of 2024. "I think that a (real) announcement at the end of the year may be possible," Klippel tweeted. "In any case, I don't see the game arriving before the end of 2024." So maybe the 2025 side of that 2024/2025 estimate is more likely. A May 2022 earnings call from Take Two, Rockstar’s parent company, also put a dampener on any release date optimism by outlining the publisher’s release pipeline for FY2023 through FY2025 with no mention of GTA 6. On the surface, this would appear to suggest that we might not see GTA 6 until after April 2026 which would be a long wait. However, it’s worth noting that the slide showing the release pipeline says that it’s only a “snapshot” of the current development pipeline and that new titles will be added in the future. There will, for instance, be updated FY 24/25 details given with the Q4 FY2023 results.

Advertisement Besides that, even if Take Two does have a rough internal release window for GTA 6 it’s unlikely that it’s going to reveal it to the world via a slide in a financial presentation. As it is, we still don’t know even a rough release window for GTA 6 and it feels like we shouldn’t attempt to glean it from this presentation. We'll have to wait until Rockstar Games officially confirms GTA 6's release date to know for sure when we'll get our hands on it, but based on current speculation it looks likely that won't be for a few years yet. GTA Trilogy remaster vs GTA 3, GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas Unfortunately, Rockstar Games didn't share a trailer for GTA 6 alongside its announcement, suggesting that the developer is approaching its reveal of Grand Theft Auto 6 differently than its previous titles. With both GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar Games teased an announcement a few days before dropping the first trailer for either game. But this time Rockstar didn't tease an announcement at all, nor did it announce the game with a trailer, instead it simply included the announcement as part of a community post, making it somewhat difficult to predict whether there will indeed will a trailer sometime soon. Either way, if there’s a Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer, you’ll know about it because the internet will explode – and we'll let you know too, of course. Rockstar Games didn't confirm where GTA 6 will take us in its announcement but there's a plethora of rumors floating around suggesting a variety of settings for Grand Theft Auto 6 (with some more believable than others). Although there haven’t been any concrete reports as yet, and its hard to nail down exactly which rumors hold water, every online titbit and juicy gossip morsel is pointing towards GTA 6’s map being absolutely massive. We’re even not talking city-size massive, we’re talking potentially the entirety of the United States massive. One of the biggest Grand Theft Auto 6 setting rumors has come from YouTube channel The Know, which claimed that GTA 6 is being developed under the code name Project Americas. The reason for this code name is apparently because players will be able to fly between the US and South America in the game, though the majority of the action will take place in the former. This in combination with the source's assertion that the game will largely be set in Vice City (the Rockstar version of Miami) suggests there could be a focus on drug-running which would draw on the popularity of shows and movies like Narcos and Tom Cruise's Made in America. Particularly if Rockstar holds on to that 80s setting. Another, now deleted, post on Reddit seemed to corroborate some of the claims in The Know Report. According to the Reddit poster behind the leak, the game, known as Project Americas, has been in production since 2015, though it was placed on ice while Red Dead Redemption 2 was the focus. The post claimed that GTA 6 could be expansive, set across multiple decades (the 1970s to 1980s) and locations (one of which is Vice City, another Liberty City and another is a fictional city based on Rio de Janeiro). The game will apparently deal with one playable protagonist named Ricardo and play through their story as a rising drug lord with heavy inspiration from Netflix's Narcos series. The story will allegedly be told through chapters, with a heavy emphasis on the visuals of changes in time as the story progresses. While there's no estimated release date given, the post says that the plan is to release the game for the next generation only (a claim that several reports have corroborated). While it's unlikely that the whole report is true (even the poster says that the game's pre-alpha status means things are likely to change) that's not to say some elements are impossible. Following these rumors, since early 2020, a series of 'leaked' images have been emerging online that allegedly reveal sections of the overall GTA 6 map - and line up with the Project Americas rumor. So far there have been four map leaks in total, each appearing to show a different section of the overall map. Fans have speculated about what each section of the map may be with locations rumored including Rio De Janeiro, the Everglades and Colombia.

However, leaker Tom Henderson claims(opens in new tab) that, while Vice City will be coming to GTA 6 in some capacity, as the Project Americas rumor claims, that the map isn't as big as previous rumors claim. In addition, Henderson claims that GTA 6 won't be set be in the 80s or 90s, but instead will have a modern setting. This is apparently to allow the base game to "fit" with GTA Online, with developers wanting "as much freedom as possible to release as many DLCs as possible". Another, slightly less believable, rumor posted anonymously on Pastebin - which has since been removed (via Comic Book) - claimed that GTA 6 will allow players to travel between several big cities, including Liberty City and Vice City. The poster also claimed you start off as a small-time drug runner before joining an infamous gang and kicking it with the big dogs. The anonymous poster also claimed GTA 6 will feature both major cities along with a vast stretch of highways and Blaine County-like countryside in the middle of it all. While location rumors seem to be leaking in abundance, the anonymous Pastebin post was backed up by review on Glassdoor by a Rockstar Games QA tester, which has since been removed (via Dexerto). The post left a cryptic message that seen the first letter of each sentence spelling out 'GTA6LSVCLC'. This may be pointing to the potential locations of Grand Theft Auto 6: Los Santos, Vice City, and Liberty City. Wonder what these locations would look like together as an actual map? Graphic designer RealityDesign posted a concept image on GTA Forums, showing what this map could potentially look like. Check it out below:screenshot of los santos NewswireGTA OnlineAnnouncements Grand Theft Auto Community Update Updates to The Contract, New Details on GTAV for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and More February 4, 2022 As the GTA Online community continues to grow stronger with each passing year, we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for playing with us across 2021, whether through the high-speed thrills of Los Santos Tuners, chasing down Dr. Dre’s lost tracks in The Contract, or just causing havoc in Freemode with friends. As we enter our third console generation and with much more to come in 2022 and beyond, here is a look at just some of what’s on the way. The Contract – Short Cuts to Short Trips and More The Contract brought GTAV’s story into present-day GTA Online as players helped Franklin Clinton set up his celebrity solutions agency and track down hip-hop mogul Dr. Dre’s lost, unreleased music, along with an array of new gameplay including Security Contracts, Payphone Hits, and the ability to step into the shoes of Franklin and Lamar for the Short Trips co-op story missions.

To ensure everyone can easily experience the fun of Short Trips, players will soon be able to access Short Trips directly from the Jobs menu without completing The Contract’s story missions. And look for official versions of Dr. Dre’s tracks from The Contract, hitting your favorite music streaming service today. vehicle screenshot A New Generation for GTAV and GTA Online With the GTAV community stronger than ever, Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online will come to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S platforms this coming March 15, bringing the blockbuster open-world experience to players on the latest hardware. We sincerely appreciate the entire community’s support over the years as the game now heads into an unprecedented third console generation. Grand Theft Auto V and GTA Online for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S features new graphics modes with up to 4K resolution, up to 60 frames per second, texture and draw distance upgrades, HDR options and ray-tracing, as well as offering the technical advancements of the latest console generation with faster loading times, immersive 3D audio, platform-specific features like advanced haptic feedback, and much more. PS4 and Xbox One players eager to continue their journey on the newest generation of hardware will be able to transfer both their GTAV Story Mode progress and their current GTA Online characters and progression to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S with a one-time migration at launch. Plus, a new standalone version of GTA Online for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S will debut at launch — available for free for the first three months to PlayStation 5 players — making it easier than ever before for new players to experience everything GTA Online has to offer. screenshot of Hao Improvements to GTA Online GTA Online for PS5 and Xbox Series also includes a range of improvements including the ability to skip the GTAV Story Mode prologue before entering Online, and an all-new GTA Online Tutorial. New GTA Online players will now enter the Career Builder, with instant access to their choice of one of four illicit businesses — Biker, Executive, Nightclub Owner, or Gunrunner — and a sizable GTA$ windfall to help select a property, high-end vehicle, and the firepower required to kickstart their enterprise. Returning players will also have the option to restart their character and take advantage of the Career Builder at any time. The PS5 and Xbox Series X|S versions of GTA Online also include the new Hao’s Special Works auto shop, located within the LS Car Meet, which will allow players to upgrade select vehicles (5 new vehicles and 5 existing vehicles at launch) for elite driving performance that takes full advantage of the upgraded power of new console hardware. What’s Next With the unprecedented longevity of GTAV, we know many of you have been asking us about a new entry in the Grand Theft Auto series. With every new project we embark on, our goal is always to significantly move beyond what we have previously delivered — and we are pleased to confirm that active development for the next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series is well underway. We look forward to sharing more as soon as we are ready, so please stay tuned to the Rockstar Newswire for official details.

On behalf of our entire team, we thank you all for your support and cannot wait to step into the future with you! - Rockstar Games