Take-Two CEO ‘Highly Confident’ of GTA 6 Releasing in Fall 2025: Report

Grand Theft Auto 6 is ready to launch someday in 2025. Take-Two Interactive, in its earnings report for fiscal 12 months 2024 final week, narrowed down the sport’s launch window to the autumn of calendar 2025. Now, Take-Two CEO has mentioned he’s “extremely assured” of GTA 6’s deliberate launch timing.

Talking to CNBC, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick mentioned the writer’s launch calendar, significantly specializing in Rockstar Games’ GTA 6. The hotly anticipated recreation was first revealed with a trailer in December 2023 and is ready to reach within the fall of subsequent 12 months. Zelnick mentioned that Rockstar mother or father Take-Two was “extremely assured in that timing.”

“Nicely, there may be slippage within the business and we’re not immune from that. Nonetheless, we narrowed the timing as a result of we’re extremely assured in that timing,” Zelnick advised CNBC.

The Take-Two CEO additionally talked concerning the deliberate launch window for GTA 6 and the way the writer and Rockstar Video games arrived at it. “There are components which you could really measure, for instance the variety of bugs in a title, and each one among us will be sure we have now as few bugs as attainable earlier than we launch,” he mentioned.

“Nonetheless, within the case of a rare title, for which there are extraordinary expectations, it is probably not about bugs, it is about creating an expertise that nobody’s seen earlier than, and Rockstar Video games seeks perfection in what they do. And perfection is certainly onerous to measure, it truly is extra subjective than goal.” Zelnick added.

GTA 6 doesn’t but have a concrete launch date. The sport was first revealed with a trailer detailing its protagonists and setting after a slew of leaks in December 2023. Extra trailers for the sport that concentrate on its gameplay options ought to arrive forward of launch.

Final week, throughout its quarterly earnings name, Take-Two confirmed that GTA 6 would launch within the fall of calendar 2025. In April, Take-Two announced that it might lay off about 5 % of its workforce, or round 600 staff. The writer mentioned it might additionally cancel a number of tasks in improvement as a part of a cost-cutting plan.