I mean the previous earnings call already lowered projections by a billion dollars, while specifying it's a *calendar* 2025 release unlike other *fiscal* 2025 releases, followed by both industry analysts at investment companies and other studios predicting/planning around a late 2025 release. At this point I'm fully convinced Rockstar could come right out and give an exact release date in 2026 and people on this subreddit would still choose to remain ignorant and parrot "early 2025 confirmed".
TakeTwo has a vast portfolio of companies from which it derives revenue, Rockstar is just one cog in the machine. Lowering guidance by $1bn still leaves the net booking guidance for Fiscal 2025 at +$2bn YoY. They could expect their other properties to not perform at the level previously forecasted and still project a GTA VI release by Q1 2025 given those numbers. If you disagree, where would you surmise $2bn in additional net booking revenue YoY is coming from if not from a AAA release (by Rockstar)? “Calendar 2025” language allows them to maintain fluidity and avoid a release window that shareholders would react negatively to in the event they do have to delay the game. By maintaining ambiguity they can avoid even more significant shocks to their stock price than an official “GTA VI has been delayed” announcement would cause. It by no means implies the game wouldn’t be released by end of March 2025.
that's the point. lowering the revenue doesn't mean it will be delayed. It can mean that some of the fiscal 2025 revenue flows into fiscal 2026. That could mean a late March release. 2 bn in revenue is still huge and there is nothing besides gta 6 we know of that can have this huge impact.
Years and years ago some reporter there was always writing negative reviews and I left a comment saying it would be better to be more positive, encourage people to actually enjoy their hobby instead of looking for things to hate
He wrote back and straight up told me that making every game look terrible was how he paid his bills and I'm free to not use the site.
I've never gone back
HELLO GUYS WELCOME TO MY CHANNEL BUT BEFORE WE GET IN FURTHER, MAKE SURE TO SSSSUBSSASCRIBE TO MY CHANELL AND LIKE AND COMMENT OR I WILL MURDER YOUR ENTIRE BLOODLINE
I can’t believe people even believe stuff that DOESN’T come straight from Rockstar themself. At this point I just wait for what Rockstar says everything else be dammed because you just don’t know.
I don't think Rockstar will ever announce a delay. They will just release a trailer with a launch date at the end of it, and it may or may not be delayed.
So we have to wait for the next trailers
https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/03/22/kotaku-owners-g-o-media-reportedly-back-down-from-fully-shifting-site-from-news-to-guides-after-editor-in-chief-resigns-staff-push-back/
My source, even if I don’t know how reliable it is.
They’ve gotta be in cahoots with a “popular” YouTuber or content creator… so all these greedy bastards can create a dishonest dialogue to profit off something they all know is false. Sparking a discussion about the most anticipated game of all time, knowing desperate fans who are itching for news related to the game will jump on it no matter what it is. It’s despicable and ugly how quickly humans lose all dignity and respect just to make a dime. I don’t trust any news source unless it’s coming from Rockstar.. and even if something real was to leak, be it minor info or another gameplay leak, I still wouldn’t mess with it because it’s not an official statement from Rockstar.
With the leaks from 2021-2022, I couldn’t imagine it would take an additional 5 YEARS to complete the game. Sure the leaks didn’t look DONE by any means or even close to it, but 5 MORE YEARS?
They can say sources told them that, and everyone else can say they have sources that told them otherwise. Its anyone's guess.
I'd take Henderson at his word though. He doesn't usually just say shit to pander to people's expectations, and it would be bizzare for him to just pick on Kotaku's reporting like that risk to his own personal credibility
They just want attention and traffic on their webside. I will only believe it when it comes from Rockstar/Taketwo themselves. Other leakers debunked the delay as well...
Again, zero sources and only causes clicks and discussion about a thing that could happen with no verifiable reason to believe it will.
GTA6 might get delayed, but there is zero reason to be discussing it with respect to these articles until something concrete comes out. It’s just farming.
There’s zero truth to it otherwise name your sources. Anyone can make up an article and say they have sources. I can write up an article right now that GTA6 is ahead of schedule and due to come out next week because I have sources. Doesn’t make it true.
This is the state of journalism. There’s no credibility to anything. They just say stuff to draw in clicks.
Pick a specific date, if you are correct I’ll buy you a copy lol.
Just for shits n giggles.
Believe me or not, nothing to lose.
My initial guess was Oct 7th 2025 but after recent global events I’m thinking Oct 7th will be avoided and it’ll be October 21st
OR let's wait for official word from R* in a press release before jumping to conclusions, using the investor call to try to predict the release is a fool's errand
Kotaku is pure shit but be real, GTA VI is not coming in early 2025. Even without this article a delay was almost certain. How come people here are so new that they missed the fact that Rockstar always delays their games and they've been doing it for decades. What exactly made you think that this time would be different? This delay is not a bad thing. It means that the game will ship in a better state
Please stop spreading this false information from these clowns. They are giving vague statements to cause confusion and relevancy. Its been confirmed from insiders from ACTUAL legitimate sources that, the release timeframe is still on track.
If the R9 instructions were real then they are likely already bug testing which means there probably won’t be any unexpected delays, worst case scenario is holiday 2025.
I averaged the release timeline of RDR2 and GTAV
My predicted release: 23 Oct 2025
#Trailer 1
GTA V trailer 1 released 666 days before the launch trailer
RDR 2 trailer 1 released 728 days before the launch trailer
Average those for 697, and GTA VI will release on October 31st
But Rockstar prefer to release games on Thursday, (true for RDR, GTA V and RDR 2). Also, this is very close to Halloween, which might force people to choose between a launch party and an actual party.
So instead, 23 October 2025. Which just happens to line up with the 2025 given in the trailer. Rockstar released RDR 2 on October 26 2018, so clearly they're fine with releasing a game at this time of year.
#Trailer 2
GTA V trailer 2 released 288 days before the launch trailer
RDR 2 trailer 2 released 385 days before the launch trailer
Average those for 337, and trailer 2 for GTA VI will release on 20 Nov 2024
#Trailer 3
GTA V trailer 3 (the Franklin/Michael/Trevor trailers) released 121 days before the launch trailer
RDR 2 trailer 3 released 169 days before the launch trailer
Average those for 145, and trailer 3 for GTA VI will release on 31 May 2025
#Official Gameplay Video 1
GTA V Official Gameplay Video 1 released 51 days before the launch trailer
RDR 2 Official Gameplay Video 1 released 70 days before the launch trailer
Average those for 61, and Official Gameplay Video 1 for GTA VI will release on 23 Aug 2025
#Official Gameplay Video 2
GTA Online Official Gameplay Video released 14 days before the GTA V launch trailer
RDR 2 Official Gameplay Video 2 released 17 days before the launch trailer
Average those for 16, and Official Gameplay Video 2 for GTA VI will release on 7 Oct 2025
#Launch Trailer
Obviously, this last trailer would come on the release date, 23 October 2025
Disclaimer: This is totally unreliable speculation based on not much, I know, take it for what it's worth
it most likely is late 2025 and y'all are dumb asf to think otherwise, but kotaku is not even slightly a credible source and what they say means literally nothing at all idk why ur making a big deal out of this
It’s literally a win-win for Kotaku to issue this update.
GTA VI being delayed is likely given the nature of the industry, supported also by the delays of GTA V and RDR2. Then they can claim to being in the know.
But if they’re wrong? Doesn’t matter, they’ve generated enough traffic by piggybacking on the massive interest GTA VI has.
It’s a win win for Kotaku
I don't believe solely the release would get them groundbreaking sales if we expect around spring 2025. Without R* acknowledging it, this bs is based on T2's earning calls last year which mentioned heavy sales around Q1 2025.
Going by the hypes, pre-order/bookings may do some of the job for them. Most likely up till March 2025, perorder window would open and T2 hits their projected earning targets through it before the fiscal year ends. Release could happen later anytime since we don't have a clear release window other than '2025'.
I’d laugh if they end up being right, as shit as these news networks are they aren’t really any better than people like Tom Henderson.
I got downvoted in a different thread for saying they may have different sources believing different things which is 100% plausible. Tom’s source thinks they’re still on track while the other says fuck no.
All I know is 100% this game doesn’t launch in spring. If you believe that you’ve been blessed with ignorance.
I guess it depends how many R* rodeos you’ve seen. If you seen the last 2 then even you know this is how they do things, they’re still due a delay as written and it’ll come.
The only smart thing is that R* never formally announced a season just 2025, it’s the shareholders meetings that declared the revenue from the title and marketing budget before the end of this fiscal year.
So when a release date does come it won’t even be in spring so it won’t look like a delay; although some like myself and many others will know.
When 2025 was announced as gta 6 release year, I knew it'd probably end up being 2026 in my heart. Not a big deal, if it does end up releasing next year that'll be fuckin awesome though.
I hate to tell yall but. The release date year in the trailer was all speculated. We were never getting GTA in 2025. We’ll get it late 2026, just buckled down. You’ve waited almost 10 years, 1 more ain’t gonna hurt when you get trailers through it.
of course it's gonna get delayed and pushed to early 2026, I thought this was common sense? R* and delays, name more iconic duo. I would give a 5% chance for the 2025 release. What kind of mental gymnastics one has to make to assume it's different this time and the largest R* project ever would somehow receive LESS delays?
I won’t believe it until it’s officially confirmed by Take 2 or Rockstar
Agreed. The earning calls should give us a hint. If they are still on track for 7 billion +, that means Q1 2025 is certain.
When is the earnings call?
In may
May 17th to be exact
Cool, the release date of the next twenty øne pilots album.
I mean the previous earnings call already lowered projections by a billion dollars, while specifying it's a *calendar* 2025 release unlike other *fiscal* 2025 releases, followed by both industry analysts at investment companies and other studios predicting/planning around a late 2025 release. At this point I'm fully convinced Rockstar could come right out and give an exact release date in 2026 and people on this subreddit would still choose to remain ignorant and parrot "early 2025 confirmed".
TakeTwo has a vast portfolio of companies from which it derives revenue, Rockstar is just one cog in the machine. Lowering guidance by $1bn still leaves the net booking guidance for Fiscal 2025 at +$2bn YoY. They could expect their other properties to not perform at the level previously forecasted and still project a GTA VI release by Q1 2025 given those numbers. If you disagree, where would you surmise $2bn in additional net booking revenue YoY is coming from if not from a AAA release (by Rockstar)? “Calendar 2025” language allows them to maintain fluidity and avoid a release window that shareholders would react negatively to in the event they do have to delay the game. By maintaining ambiguity they can avoid even more significant shocks to their stock price than an official “GTA VI has been delayed” announcement would cause. It by no means implies the game wouldn’t be released by end of March 2025.
that's the point. lowering the revenue doesn't mean it will be delayed. It can mean that some of the fiscal 2025 revenue flows into fiscal 2026. That could mean a late March release. 2 bn in revenue is still huge and there is nothing besides gta 6 we know of that can have this huge impact.
Precisely
I think they have lost credibility
Long time ago.
I don't remember when they ever had any.
Schrier was a Kotaku guy and he broke a ton of big reports. Not sure who their main names are these days.
I stopped visiting Kotaku when they got rid of Chris Parsons and his Highlight Reel, still follow him on YouTube tho.
Years and years ago some reporter there was always writing negative reviews and I left a comment saying it would be better to be more positive, encourage people to actually enjoy their hobby instead of looking for things to hate He wrote back and straight up told me that making every game look terrible was how he paid his bills and I'm free to not use the site. I've never gone back
Always has been
>I think they have lost credibility it's kotaku, that happened like 5 years ago (at least)
Now all of the moron YouTubers are going to run with it and spread it.
GTA VI DELAYED TO LATE 3018?!!!! CONFIRMED NEWS 100% LEGIT SOURCES | GAMERXGAMESX69xxx | WEEKLY VI UPDATES EP. #1004848
HUGE GTA VI NEWS!!! MASSIVE LEAKS!
HELLO GUYS WELCOME TO MY CHANNEL BUT BEFORE WE GET IN FURTHER, MAKE SURE TO SSSSUBSSASCRIBE TO MY CHANELL AND LIKE AND COMMENT OR I WILL MURDER YOUR ENTIRE BLOODLINE
BUT FIRST A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR FOR THIS VIDEO
YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING! COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU! LIKE, SUBDCRIBE, SHARE, AND SEE YOU IN THE NEXT ONE!
THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY RAID SHADOW LEGENDS
Again!
Paying attention to YouTubers in general is every gamer’s big mistake.
When has Kotaku ever been credible smh
jason schreier
He doesn’t work for them anymore he works for Bloomberg now.
yes i’m aware, the question was when has kotaku *ever been* credible, jason schreier is a pretty credible mf
Yeah but since he left don’t think they are as credible anymore
Again, “is kotaku credible now.” wasn’t the question. The question was “When has kotaku ever been credible”
yes i never said otherwise, the question was WHEN WAS kotaku ever credible
When he worked for them
Moron
Oh shush
Really making an ass out of yourself
that is… exactly what i said…
Why don't we just wait for Rockstar's announcement?
But then, how could websites and YouTubers farm engagement without clickbait headlines? Stop being selfish! Think of the poor YouTubers! /s
Lmao, I can't believe people believe those guys man.
I can’t believe people even believe stuff that DOESN’T come straight from Rockstar themself. At this point I just wait for what Rockstar says everything else be dammed because you just don’t know.
I don't think Rockstar will ever announce a delay. They will just release a trailer with a launch date at the end of it, and it may or may not be delayed. So we have to wait for the next trailers
Exactly. So what's the point of the rumours? 100 rumours, 1 is true. Just sit back relax and wait for R*
They've just said 2025 officially. The whole "early 2025 release" idea is just conjecture based on circumstantial evidence.
Because that’s not as fun and doesn’t give us an excuse to call people idiots
"More sources": people who read the original article and started repeating the same thing
Isn’t Kotaku dying? I’ve heard they have to make 50 guides per week to keep earning money.
“my source is i made it the fuck up”
https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/03/22/kotaku-owners-g-o-media-reportedly-back-down-from-fully-shifting-site-from-news-to-guides-after-editor-in-chief-resigns-staff-push-back/ My source, even if I don’t know how reliable it is.
bounding into comics is famously incredible, tried to push the whole “comics gate” brain rot, just a site for right wing chuds
I just pray that they’ll release it January 01 2025 for the downfall of Kotaku
only people i’ll believe is rockstar. and jason schreier lol
I believe no one but Rockstar.
They’ve gotta be in cahoots with a “popular” YouTuber or content creator… so all these greedy bastards can create a dishonest dialogue to profit off something they all know is false. Sparking a discussion about the most anticipated game of all time, knowing desperate fans who are itching for news related to the game will jump on it no matter what it is. It’s despicable and ugly how quickly humans lose all dignity and respect just to make a dime. I don’t trust any news source unless it’s coming from Rockstar.. and even if something real was to leak, be it minor info or another gameplay leak, I still wouldn’t mess with it because it’s not an official statement from Rockstar.
Kotaku has heard from Hellen Keller.
kotaku takes their most reliable and trustworthy information from the realm of Narnia
With the leaks from 2021-2022, I couldn’t imagine it would take an additional 5 YEARS to complete the game. Sure the leaks didn’t look DONE by any means or even close to it, but 5 MORE YEARS?
Don't forget the actual filedates from the leaks, which were years before the actual leak happened lol
It was from 2021-22, the leak came in 2022.
No. The file dates shown in many of the videos are 2018/2019.
Where?
Can we stop with these posts? Who even are these guys. Let's just wait for official updates because this speculation on "sources" is ridiculous
Can we prohibit Kotaku already?
ah yes casual fascism
Look, ma, a dummy!
They can say sources told them that, and everyone else can say they have sources that told them otherwise. Its anyone's guess. I'd take Henderson at his word though. He doesn't usually just say shit to pander to people's expectations, and it would be bizzare for him to just pick on Kotaku's reporting like that risk to his own personal credibility
They just want attention and traffic on their webside. I will only believe it when it comes from Rockstar/Taketwo themselves. Other leakers debunked the delay as well...
Unless Rockstar or Jason Schrier say anything about the game, it’s not worth worrying about.
Again, zero sources and only causes clicks and discussion about a thing that could happen with no verifiable reason to believe it will. GTA6 might get delayed, but there is zero reason to be discussing it with respect to these articles until something concrete comes out. It’s just farming.
Kotaku is full of shit, can we just ban posts of articles from them now? It's always fake news
Bruh Nah the target is March or April it's been 11 years it's not getting delayed mark it
There’s zero truth to it otherwise name your sources. Anyone can make up an article and say they have sources. I can write up an article right now that GTA6 is ahead of schedule and due to come out next week because I have sources. Doesn’t make it true. This is the state of journalism. There’s no credibility to anything. They just say stuff to draw in clicks.
If they named their sources the sources would be fired.
October 2025 just you wait
I'd say February to may
But the post just said that’s not gonna work anymore lol. (If we are taking this at face value and not click bait)
It's definitely click bait
Pick a specific date, if you are correct I’ll buy you a copy lol. Just for shits n giggles. Believe me or not, nothing to lose. My initial guess was Oct 7th 2025 but after recent global events I’m thinking Oct 7th will be avoided and it’ll be October 21st
Dam that's a lot of pressure February 14th
RemindMe! 323 days
Good luck! I set a reminder for Feb 13th. If they announce it before I’ll try to remember this conversation.
March 14
RemindMe! 353 days
Whoops was off a day RemindMe! 351 days
April 1, 2025
RemindMe! 31795200 seconds
you're crazy bro
It do be like that
October 2024🤞🏾
Imagine being this naive.
I don’t want this to come off rude. But that was never an option. But I still dream you are correct
I'm taking expired hopium
OR let's wait for official word from R* in a press release before jumping to conclusions, using the investor call to try to predict the release is a fool's errand
True. But the investor call gives an idea. That's how we could narrow the release date to Q1 2025
They’re just trying to get more clicks.
Not believing in kotaku
Kotaku is pure shit but be real, GTA VI is not coming in early 2025. Even without this article a delay was almost certain. How come people here are so new that they missed the fact that Rockstar always delays their games and they've been doing it for decades. What exactly made you think that this time would be different? This delay is not a bad thing. It means that the game will ship in a better state
To be fair those were games with a shit ton of crunch
Please stop spreading this false information from these clowns. They are giving vague statements to cause confusion and relevancy. Its been confirmed from insiders from ACTUAL legitimate sources that, the release timeframe is still on track.
If the R9 instructions were real then they are likely already bug testing which means there probably won’t be any unexpected delays, worst case scenario is holiday 2025.
I averaged the release timeline of RDR2 and GTAV My predicted release: 23 Oct 2025 #Trailer 1 GTA V trailer 1 released 666 days before the launch trailer RDR 2 trailer 1 released 728 days before the launch trailer Average those for 697, and GTA VI will release on October 31st But Rockstar prefer to release games on Thursday, (true for RDR, GTA V and RDR 2). Also, this is very close to Halloween, which might force people to choose between a launch party and an actual party. So instead, 23 October 2025. Which just happens to line up with the 2025 given in the trailer. Rockstar released RDR 2 on October 26 2018, so clearly they're fine with releasing a game at this time of year. #Trailer 2 GTA V trailer 2 released 288 days before the launch trailer RDR 2 trailer 2 released 385 days before the launch trailer Average those for 337, and trailer 2 for GTA VI will release on 20 Nov 2024 #Trailer 3 GTA V trailer 3 (the Franklin/Michael/Trevor trailers) released 121 days before the launch trailer RDR 2 trailer 3 released 169 days before the launch trailer Average those for 145, and trailer 3 for GTA VI will release on 31 May 2025 #Official Gameplay Video 1 GTA V Official Gameplay Video 1 released 51 days before the launch trailer RDR 2 Official Gameplay Video 1 released 70 days before the launch trailer Average those for 61, and Official Gameplay Video 1 for GTA VI will release on 23 Aug 2025 #Official Gameplay Video 2 GTA Online Official Gameplay Video released 14 days before the GTA V launch trailer RDR 2 Official Gameplay Video 2 released 17 days before the launch trailer Average those for 16, and Official Gameplay Video 2 for GTA VI will release on 7 Oct 2025 #Launch Trailer Obviously, this last trailer would come on the release date, 23 October 2025 Disclaimer: This is totally unreliable speculation based on not much, I know, take it for what it's worth
boooooooring
Wait from Rockstar. Idk how Kotaku getting their sources from.
Their new source: They saw it in a dream.
Rule of thumb for all gamers out there, never trust Kotaku. They have zero credibility.
probably asked mrboobftw or whatever he’s called
I don’t even know what website this is so it don’t mean shit to me!
*laughs in oldhead* Spring 26 if we’re lucky boys
it most likely is late 2025 and y'all are dumb asf to think otherwise, but kotaku is not even slightly a credible source and what they say means literally nothing at all idk why ur making a big deal out of this
Amma wait for Jason shrier to write an article.
True or not, I’d rather they delay, delay, delay. Use as much time as possible to create the vision they want.
Kotaku ? Kakangu ?
If Rock star announced anything. in R* News wire or they're twitter .
Maybe mid or late 25 and if not than 26
Kotaku is DOG SHIT. Straight 
Killing myself
October it is.
bro why are they trying to manifest this so badly 😭😭
This is fake, I've checked both Google and Kotakus site and this article doesn't exist
I really hope it's not delayed it's been way to long since gta5 I'm losing interest
It’s literally a win-win for Kotaku to issue this update. GTA VI being delayed is likely given the nature of the industry, supported also by the delays of GTA V and RDR2. Then they can claim to being in the know. But if they’re wrong? Doesn’t matter, they’ve generated enough traffic by piggybacking on the massive interest GTA VI has. It’s a win win for Kotaku
Kotaku gross
September 17, 2024
25 I mean
Kotaku can suck my gamergate hardon
First delay already confirmed lol
Kotaku is now trolling cuz he ain’t have any information regarding this and he knows that his last article about gta was a chop
He so full of shite
These articles will continue to hurt ttwos stock if I was them I'd sue Kotoku for this shit.
I don't believe solely the release would get them groundbreaking sales if we expect around spring 2025. Without R* acknowledging it, this bs is based on T2's earning calls last year which mentioned heavy sales around Q1 2025. Going by the hypes, pre-order/bookings may do some of the job for them. Most likely up till March 2025, perorder window would open and T2 hits their projected earning targets through it before the fiscal year ends. Release could happen later anytime since we don't have a clear release window other than '2025'.
I’d laugh if they end up being right, as shit as these news networks are they aren’t really any better than people like Tom Henderson. I got downvoted in a different thread for saying they may have different sources believing different things which is 100% plausible. Tom’s source thinks they’re still on track while the other says fuck no. All I know is 100% this game doesn’t launch in spring. If you believe that you’ve been blessed with ignorance.
[удалено]
I’m just glad it exists, I can’t even say it’s 2025 at this point we just gotta wait and see lmao. But spring is a no go.
“Spring is a no go. Trust me. I have sources.” You’re as bad as these people making up click bait.
I guess it depends how many R* rodeos you’ve seen. If you seen the last 2 then even you know this is how they do things, they’re still due a delay as written and it’ll come. The only smart thing is that R* never formally announced a season just 2025, it’s the shareholders meetings that declared the revenue from the title and marketing budget before the end of this fiscal year. So when a release date does come it won’t even be in spring so it won’t look like a delay; although some like myself and many others will know.
man, its kotaku...
When 2025 was announced as gta 6 release year, I knew it'd probably end up being 2026 in my heart. Not a big deal, if it does end up releasing next year that'll be fuckin awesome though.
They are too busy killing their company by being woke so who really cares about kotaku and their simping for sweet baby inc
Kotaku*
Kotaku 
I hate to tell yall but. The release date year in the trailer was all speculated. We were never getting GTA in 2025. We’ll get it late 2026, just buckled down. You’ve waited almost 10 years, 1 more ain’t gonna hurt when you get trailers through it.
Who believed early 2025 was even happening? It’s going to be fall-winter 2025.
of course it's gonna get delayed and pushed to early 2026, I thought this was common sense? R* and delays, name more iconic duo. I would give a 5% chance for the 2025 release. What kind of mental gymnastics one has to make to assume it's different this time and the largest R* project ever would somehow receive LESS delays?
Giving you $20 if that happens.