The release of “GTA VI” postponed to May 26, 2026, to “bring the level of quality” expected

The exit of the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA VI), new opus in the action video game series, initially planned for the fall of 2025, was postponed to May 26, 2026, announced on Friday May 2, the Rockstar Games publisher, explaining that he wanted to refine before its launch.

“We hope you will understand that we need more time to bring you the level of quality you expect”said the company in a press release.

The trailer for the game unveiled in December 2023, based on chases, festivals on yachts and, for the first time since the 1997 episode, a female character among the characters, was viewed 250 million times on the Youtube page of Rockstar Games.

RENOUS WITH VICE CITY

Released in 2013, the previous component, GTA Vsold more than 200 million copies worldwide and has been available on most consoles that have since been released. It is also available on PC. GTA VI will revive Vice City, a setting inspired by Miami, and again promises fans to play gangsters. A previous episode, published in 2002, was already taking place.

The success of this saga was not exempt from controversy, especially because of its sulfurous aspect which stages individuals with criminal behavior and who encourages, according to his detractors, the players to reproduce in real life the acts of their character. Accusations rejected by creators.

Beyond Rockstar Games, it is the whole industry that had their eyes on this launch, while the sector has experienced growth for two years, after taking advantage of the confinements linked to the COVIR to break records in terms of turnover. Analysts expected two new products to restart the video game this year: Grand Theft Auto VI And the Nintendo switch 2, scheduled for June 5. So far, pre-orders for the machine to succeed the very popular Switch seem to be there and exceeded 2 million at the end of April for Japan alone.