Take-Two Still “Highly Confident” About GTA 6’s Fall 2025 Release

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, in addition to the company’s recent earnings call report, has hopped on an interview with CNBC, talking about the process of video game release schedules, and affirming GTA 6’s aforementioned release window. While Strauss says that the industry may sometimes offer “slippage,” Take-Two is confident that GTA 6 will meet its release period next year, which is “fall 2025.”

Well, there is slippage in the industry and we’re not immune from that,” he replied. However, we narrowed the timing because we are highly confident in that timing.” 

This is obviously great news for fans and players thirsting for a new GTA experience, but somewhere in our heart, all of us fear that the game will end up getting a last-minute delay. Or, the news could arrive sometime in the middle of 2025, with Rockstar Games asking for more time to “perfect” the upcoming rendition in the mega-popular franchise. 

Expanding on the matter, Strauss also says that there are certain precautionary measures you can take to ensure a smooth release. “There are elements that you can actually measure, for example, the number of bugs in a title, and every one of us will make sure we have as few bugs as possible before we launch.” 

On the other side of the coin, there are titles like GTA 6, which warrant extreme diligence, since the margin for error can often be so large. Pair that with Rockstar’s work ethic and the type of titles it wants to produce, and you’re looking at the project of the decade here—or two decades, I’d say.

However, in the case of an extraordinary title, for which there are extraordinary expectations, it’s not really about bugs, it’s about creating an experience that no one’s seen before, and Rockstar Games seeks perfection in what they do. And perfection is indeed hard to measure, it really is more subjective than objective

GTA 6 Has Some Wild Expectations Attached To Its Name

Coming off of the legacy of GTA: San Andreas, it’s obvious that fans would want some of that title’s specialties to bleed into GTA 6. But then again, we really do want to keep our expectations in check. Some of them are seemingly going over the moon, setting us up only for disappointment.