The disappointment for the players. Rockstar Games announced, Friday, May 2, the postponement of the exit from Grand Theft Auto VI As of May 26, 2026, repelling the arrival of the game initially scheduled for the fall of 2025. “We hope you will understand that we need more time to bring you the level of quality you are waiting for“Said the studio in a statement published on its official website. This additional period is part of a very high budget development, estimated at more than a billion dollars.
The trailer for the game, unveiled in December 2023, had aroused immense craze with more than 250 million views on YouTube, especially due to the unprecedented presence of a female character among the main protagonists. The action of this opus will take place in Vice City, a fictitious city inspired by Miami, which makes its comeback in the world of the saga after being the decor of the game released in 2002.
The obsession of the video game sector
With more than 200 million copies sold since 2013, GTA Vthe latest, remains the second best -selling video game in the world, just behind Minecraft. This means the colossal wait that surrounds his successor.
Beyond the creative issue, it is the whole video game industry that follows this launch closely. The sector, losing speed since the end of the Post-Covid euphoria, is betting on some flagship titles to revive the dynamics. With GTA VI And the future Switch 2 console from Nintendo, expected in June, the analysts hoped for a double catalyst. But this concentration of expectations worries certain experts. “”If one of the two is postponed or fails commercially, this could seriously weaken the market“, warned Mat Piscatella, from Circana, from the end of 2024. If the title of Rockstar were to displease or undergo a new delay, a whole ecosystem would be a little more weakened.
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