Grand Theft Auto 6 is due for launch a while in 2025, with developer Rockstar Video games saying the long-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, was launched on December 5 and featured shiny visuals, a dense and detailed Vice Metropolis and a Tom Petty music that has since seen a 37,000 p.c improve in its Spotify streams. However hours earlier than Rockstar was pressured to truly put the trailer out, it leaked onto the web. Now the CEO of Rockstar proprietor Take-Two has stated the leak was “disappointing.”
Forward of the corporate’s quarterly earnings name Thursday, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick advised IGN that the GTA 6 trailer leak was “disappointing,” but it surely did not harm the crew at Rockstar and its guardian firm, in accordance with him.
“As for the leak, it is all the time disappointing for the crew, however on the finish of the day I do not suppose it harm us,” Zelnick stated. The Take-Two boss added that the crew was happy when the official trailer “broke the web.”
Zelnick’s assertion echoed his feedback from final February, addressing a separate leak that exposed in-development footage from GTA 6. On the time, Zelnick had claimed that the leak was an “emotional matter” slightly than a enterprise matter. “We take leaks very severely and so they disappoint us all, it is actually irritating and upsetting for the crew,” he stated. “However 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 most important of which was a hack that launched over 90 movies 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 situation of the sport. Rockstar posted the official trailer on X saying, “Our trailer is leaked, please watch the actual factor on YouTube.”
Take-Two, in the meantime, reported its earnings for the third quarter for the 2024 fiscal yr ending Dec. 31, 2023, on Thursday. The corporate’s web bookings for the quarter got here in at $1.3 billion (round Rs. 11,126 crore) on the again of sturdy efficiency by Grand Theft Auto 5, GTA On-line and the Pink Useless Redemption franchise. Nonetheless, Take-Two forecast its fourth-quarter bookings under market expectations and lower its annual estimates for the yr. As well as, the corporate additionally revised its income projections for fiscal yr 2025 (ended March 31, 2025), suggesting that GTA 6 might not be launched in March subsequent yr. Analysts have stated that the discharge of the sport would characterize a noticeable enhance within the firm’s corresponding quarterly earnings. The sport is more likely to launch in fiscal yr 2026, within the second half of subsequent yr.