Take Two CEO Says GTA 6 Trailer Leak Was ‘Disappointing’

Grand Theft Auto 6 is about to launch a while in 2025, with developer Rockstar Games asserting the much-awaited title by way of a trailer late final yr. The GTA 6 trailer, which has 174 million views on YouTube on the time of writing, got here out December 5, displaying off shiny visuals, a dense and detailed Vice Metropolis, and a Tom Petty song that has since skilled a 37,000 p.c improve in its Spotify streams. However hours earlier than Rockstar was pressured to really put out the trailer, it leaked on the Web. Now, the CEO of Rockstar proprietor Take-Two has stated that the leak was “disappointing.”

Forward of the corporate’s quarterly earnings name Thursday, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick told IGN that the GTA 6 trailer leak was “disappointing,” however it didn’t harm the group at Rockstar and its father or mother firm, based on him.

“By way of the leak, that is at all times disappointing for the group, however finally, I do not assume it harm us,” Zelnick stated. The Take-Two chief added that the group was gratified when the official trailer “broke the web.”

Zelnick’s assertion echoed his feedback from February final yr, when he addressed a separate leak that exposed in-development footage from GTA 6. On the time, Zelnick had claimed that the leak was an “emotional matter” quite than a enterprise one. “We take leaks very critically certainly they usually disappoint all of us, it is actually irritating and upsetting to the group,” he had stated. “Nonetheless, as a enterprise matter we’re not affected. However as a private matter and an emotional matter, our groups are affected.”

GTA 6’s growth has been fraught with hypothesis and leaks, the largest of which was a hack that released over 90 videos of in-development gameplay in September 2022, revealing the sport’s two protagonists and its Vice Metropolis setting. These particulars had been lastly confirmed when Rockstar launched the GTA 6 trailer, that includes two playable characters — Lucia and her companion (presumed to be Jason) — and a Miami-inspired Leonida as the placement of the sport. Posting the official trailer on X, Rockstar had stated, “Our trailer has leaked so please watch the true factor on YouTube.”

Take-Two, in the meantime, reported its third quarter earnings for fiscal yr 2024, ended December 31, 2023, on Thursday. The corporate’s web bookings for the quarter got here in at $1.3 billion (roughly Rs. 11,126 crore) on the again of sturdy efficiency of Grand Theft Auto 5, GTA On-line, and the Crimson Useless Redemption sequence. Take-Two, nonetheless, forecast its fourth-quarter bookings under market expectations and minimize down its annual estimates for the yr. Moreover, the corporate additionally revised its income projections for fiscal yr 2025 (ended March 31, 2025), suggesting that GTA 6 might not launch by March subsequent yr. Analysts have stated that the discharge of recreation would symbolize a noticeable increase within the firm’s corresponding quarterly earnings. The sport will doubtless launch in fiscal yr 2026, within the second half of subsequent yr.